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Who Should Go to College?
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When I was in high school in the early 1960s, the curriculum was split into three tracks: academic/college preparatory, general education and vocational. Upon entrance, students were placed in one of them based on their previous academic records or a ...
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College still matters
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Such worries are overblown. College graduates continue to do far better, even in this difficult economy, than those who never go to college. The new global economy, in fact, requires far more people to have much higher levels of education than ever before.
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'Normalistas' fight changes in Mexican education
USA TODAY
2012 - MORELIA, Mexico — College student Eduardo Díaz considers his participation in protests to be as much a part of his higher education as classwork. For weeks, Díaz and other students who are going to school to become teachers in rural Mexico ...
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$10000 College Degree: Rick Scott's Conceit
The Ledger
It calls for four-year colleges — an outgrowth of what were community colleges — to offer bachelor's degrees with a four-year cost of $10,000. The mean cost of a four-year Florida state-college degree in the 2011-2012 school year was more than $13,000.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
The costs of higher ed
Philadelphia Inquirer
College students in Germany won't be going into debt too deeply for their education any time soon. Consider the mass protests that erupted on campuses when several German state governments called for the end of free tuition. "Education is a human right ...
Report links college to success in workforce
Mohave Valley News
The “Employment Situation” summary shows that people who have higher education on their resumes had lower unemployment rates compared to high school graduates, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The percentage of high school graduates ...
Money by degrees
Toledo Blade
The presidents of Ohio's public universities and community colleges, at the prodding of Gov. John Kasich, are proposing big changes in the formula that state government uses to distribute tax aid to higher education. The presidents' plan would reward ...
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OregonLive.com
Higher Education's 'big agenda' requires staffing
Dickinson Press
Chancellor of Higher Education Hamid Shirvani threw down the gauntlet when he announced that he would ask for 30 additional employees to help develop a progressive “big agenda” for the North Dakota University System. By: Lloyd Omdahl, The Dickinson ...
Oregon education reform: change for students' sakeOregonLive.com
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Bureau predicts need for higher education
Daily News - Galveston County
One district in Galveston County sent more than 70 percent of their 2011 high school graduates on to a two- or four-year college or university, while in other districts, fewer than half the students are going on to some sort of higher education ...
Forum: Education needs to transform to meet needs of 21st centuryPeoria Journal Star
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Pa. panel on higher education sets good goals
The Mercury
A special commission appointed by Gov. Tom Corbett on post-secondary education issued a report in November that, if taken seriously and followed with actions, could affect both families and business in Pennsylvania by improving college funding and ...
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