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Education Week: Why Bother With Recess?
Published Online: May 8, 2012Published in Print: May 9, 2012, as Why Bother With Recess?Commentary ByCynthia A. Elder and Michael C. Obel-OmiaOne of Aesop's fables, "The Goose That Laid the Golden ...
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Education Department Announces $254 Million for Upward Bound Projects to Help About 60,000 Students Access and Succeed in Higher Education
The U.S. Department of Education announced its first set of awards for 780 Upward Bound projects today, which will help close to 60,000 students acquire the knowledge and skills they need to access...
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EducationSector
Tuition is too damn high
College students in California received another dreary report card on Wednesday. Unless the state boosts its funding support for the public university system, warned school administrators, another ...
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EducationSector
Quick Hits (5.11.12)
Beyond classroom walls. The underlying theme in yesterday’s NAEP science scores? An overall lack of hands-on experimentation and learning. So get children outside and learning, says Andy Rotherham....
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2CollegeNetwork
Three Dangerous Student Aid Myths (and what higher education leaders can do to debunk them)
Unless you live in a cave, you’ve seen the alarming headlines highlighting “exploding” college costs and “crushing” student loan debt. Because the media is trying to grab readers’ attention, these ...
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NewGradLife
Entry Level - Chemical Engineer I job in Greenville, SC
ENTRY LEVEL - Chemical Engineer I - new Apply Now Company: Fluor Location: Greenville, SC Date Posted: May 11, 2012 ENTRY LEVEL - NEW COLLEGE GRAD General Responsibilities: Under working supervisio...
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NAICUtweets
United Technologies' $1 billion employee college plan The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet
FORTUNE -- Sometimes big companies do good things for their employees during bad times. And keep on doing it, quietly, without making a fuss. That's the thought that crossed my mind when I heard th...
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NAICUtweets
NAICU - NAICU Daily News Update
NAICU Daily News Update - May 11, 2012 Building a better Class of 2016 Reading, Pa., Eagle, May 11, 2012The lengthy courtship ritual between colleges and most members of the Class of 2016 has now e...
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USATODAYcollege
Plans uncertain for some high school graduates
Getty ImagesWith graduation approaching for high school seniors, the question of what comes next in the transition to adulthood can be daunting. Many will pack their bags in the fall and head strai...
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educationweek
Study: Feminizing STEM Role Models Turns Off Girls - Inside School Research
The push to promote more "feminine" role models for science, technology, engineering and math fields—think computer engineer Barbie with her pink laptop—may backfire with middle school girls, accor...
Education
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educationweek
Making the Grade - Teacher in a Strange Land
So robo-readers can grade student essays faster and more "accurately" than actual humans--if you're willing to overlook a few minor details, such as logic and coherence? I have to admit, being able...
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UniversityVisit
Colleges turn to therapy dogs for student stress relief – USATODAY.com
ATLANTA (AP) – Just down the hall from the reference desk at Emory University's law library in a room housing antique legal texts is Stanley the golden retriever puppy, barking his head off.Stanley...
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DrBrianWilliams
College debt load rising, but some graduates work to avoid it | Duluth News Tribune
James McKeown James McKeown, a UMD student graduating this month, has paid his living expenses by playing gigs in town. Here he performsthe jazz standard “All the Things You Are” with the Monday Ni...
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NAICUheadlines
A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College
New College Affordability Measures Initiatives being launched in 2012-13 to help keep students' and families' out-of-pocket costs as low as possible. Tuition cuts and freezes, three-year degree pro...
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401kid
College Completion: Still a Big Deal, So Let’s Make It Easier and Cheaper | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag%
May 10, 2012 - by Tom Vander Ark The return on investment from American colleges is dropping—a combination of insane cost inflation and a crummy job market. To be fair, many colleges are giving k...
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UniversityVisit
Public Gets Glimpse of Science Standards
An ambitious effort to refocus K-12 science education across the nation enters a new phase today with the release of the first public draft of voluntary, “next generation” science standards.Organiz...
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College_Success
Figuring Out The Real Price Of College : Planet Money : NPR
At private colleges, the sticker price for tuition, room and board has gone through the roof over the past decade. You know this. But there's a huge gap between the sticker price — the price that c...
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DrBrianWilliams
Donors help Pennsylvania private colleges expand in tough times
State-owned colleges and universities confront crushing cuts in state funding. Students face higher tuition, along with hikes in interest rates for subsidized federal loans. Meanwhile, private libe...
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NAICUheadlines
Harvard and MIT point to online future in higher ed
New College Affordability Measures Initiatives being launched in 2012-13 to help keep students' and families' out-of-pocket costs as low as possible. Tuition cuts and freezes, three-year degree pro...
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College_Success
Student debt: Where you attend college matters
By Kathleen Kingsbury BOSTON | Fri May 11, 2012 8:02am EDT BOSTON (Reuters) - If you thought four years at Princeton would leave you saddled with more debt than the University of Michigan, think ag...
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