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First, we’ll just note that others like Ed Glaeser have noted this connection before, and observe further that it’s hardly surprising that skills might explain metropolitan unemployment rates during the Great Recession given the huge and …
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College London. But the education he …
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College London. But the education he …
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COLUMBUS — Ohio lawmakers have approved linking student performance data from kindergarten through high school with information from college to improve the state’s application for extra federal education stimulus money. States are scrambling to put …
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander’s college education was interrupted so many times that he began to wonder if he’d ever get a chance to finish what he started in the early 1960s. First, he worked to finance his wife Nancy’s education. She eventually earned …
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Commission for Higher Education said state colleges and universities need to find new ways to be efficient — without new tuition hikes — to cope with spending cuts ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels. Daniels ordered a $150 …
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Fisk spokesman Ken West told me the sale of the Stieglitz collection is still on the table as far as university officials are concerned. “The university has to be in the black every year,” West said. Welcome to the Slippery Slope: Once the …
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BISMARCK – North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education has approved guidelines for campuses to use to set student room and board prices for the next school year. The rules say North Dakota’s colleges first have to include 5 percent minimum average …
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… governor is expected to announce a strategic review of the state’s higher education systems that will lead to a long-term master plan for the future of higher education … college presidents and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.
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More than one in five borrowers of federal student loans who attend for-profit colleges default within three years of repayment, new figures made available by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday show. Historically, the government has reported such figures in terms of how many students default
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