Waterloo High School junior Brian Crave is an apprentice at The Crave Brothers farm in Waterloo, Wis. Each day Brian leaves school in the afternoon to work as an apprentice two to three hours on the family’s dairy farm. Wisconsin’s Youth …
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What if a college education isn’t for everyone? – USA Today
Waterloo High School junior Brian Crave is an apprentice at The Crave Brothers farm in Waterloo, Wis. Each day Brian leaves school in the afternoon to work as an apprentice two to three hours on the family’s dairy farm. Wisconsin’s Youth …
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Ind. community colleges have low graduation rates – 22 WSBT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s involvement in a nationwide effort to combat dismal college completion rates is casting new light on the hurdles students in the state … Indiana higher education commissioner Teresa Lubbers calls those rates …
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Q-C colleges combine for new degree – Quad Cities Onlines
DAVENPORT — A new partnership between Eastern Iowa Community College District … the WIU-Quad Cities or EICCD campuses. Conservation courses such as Fisheries Management and Wildlife Management are taught at the Nahant Marsh Education Center in …
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States Develop National Set of Standards, Hope to … – ABC News
State governors and education official’s proposed new national standards for K-12 education today, a step President Obama believes is a key to improving the quality of the nation’s schools. The voluntary guidelines, dubbed the “common core state …
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Bill seeks career track for Miss. students – Biloxi Sun Herald
… school students who don’t want to go to college would have an option to pursue career-track studies under a bill being considered in the Mississippi Legislature … Senate Education Committee Chairman Videt Carmichael said the courses would …
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College cuts draw protests – The Spokesman-Review
BERKELEY, Calif. – Students staged raucous rallies to protest education funding cuts on college campuses nationwide Thursday, but some demonstrations got out of hand as protesters threw punches and ice chunks in Wisconsin and shut down a major …
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Speeding up college education a smart idea – The Spokesman-Review
Decreasing state aid to Washington’s universities and the corresponding tuition increases have put a premium on earning diplomas as quickly as possible. It’s simple math. Getting a bachelor’s degree in three years instead of four cuts costs by …
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Regular exercise reduces patient anxiety by 20 percent, study finds – PhysOrg
But regular exercise can significantly reduce … help their patients feel less anxious,” said lead author Matthew Herring, a doctoral student in the department of kinesiology, part of the UGA College of Education. Herring pointed out that while the …
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Rory Reid reaching out to rural Nevadans – Las Vegas Sun
Lovelock — Rory Reid knows a few things about cows. He once helped save three dozen of them with a garden hose and a knife. The story is the comical cap to a campaign stump speech intended to show that the Clark County Commission chairman is, at …
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Governors brace for more economic turmoil – YAHOO!
WASHINGTON – On the recession’s front lines, governors are struggling to chart the road ahead for states staggered by unrelenting joblessness and cut-to-the-bone budgets even as Washington reports signs of economic growth. “The worst probably is …
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Body of Fourth Lynn University Student Found in Haiti – Myfoxdc.com
… a fourth Lynn University student was found in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Haiti … faculty members, Richard Bruno, 59, had been officially declared dead. Bruno, an assistant professor in Lynn’s College of Liberal Education, joined the …
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