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• Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
• NBA Star Jalen Rose: Athletes Must Step Up and Fight for Fair Education in Their Hometowns
• National Liberal Arts Colleges Where Most Accepted Students Enroll
• Improve Post-Secondary Education in Nevada
• The Economic Implications of Not Cultivating Our Top Low-Income Students
• Belgian trainee teachers fail in basic general knowledge

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:01 PM PST Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:ABC's "This Week" — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Michelle Rhee, former public schools chancellor of the District of Columbia.___NBC's ...

NBA Star Jalen Rose: Athletes Must Step Up and Fight for Fair Education in Their Hometowns Posted: 01 Feb 2013 11:26 AM PST Every day, nearly 7,000 high school students across the country give up on the dream of a diploma, and by extension, a shot at a better life. A staggering number of these students are African-American and Latino, and come from low-income families.

National Liberal Arts Colleges Where Most Accepted Students Enroll Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:17 AM PST Though prospective college students are increasingly applying to more schools, each applicant can ultimately enroll in just one. For fall 2011, some of the most popular choices among students were U.S. service academies.

Improve Post-Secondary Education in Nevada Posted: 25 Jan 2013 12:38 PM PST COMMENTARY | Post-secondary education in Nevada needs serious improvement and it is my hope more resources will be allocated to higher education this year.

The Economic Implications of Not Cultivating Our Top Low-Income Students Posted: 25 Jan 2013 02:41 AM PST The furor over student debt in this country takes aim at a noble cause -- quality education at a good price -- but obscures an even nobler cause, which is getting more students to take on more debt to obtain more skills in a modern economy that doesn't pay living wages to uneducated workers. Seen in this light, the single most important issue in higher education isn't cost, it's really something more like advertising. ...

Belgian trainee teachers fail in basic general knowledge Posted: 23 Jan 2013 09:40 AM PST BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A large number of Belgium's future secondary school teachers struggle with basic concepts of geography, politics and history, a study published on Wednesday has shown. Among final year teaching students involved in the study, one in three could not identify the United States on a map and almost half did not know where the Pacific Ocean was. Shown a picture of Mao Zedong, two in three could not recognize the Chinese Communist leader, with the most common response being that it was the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. ...

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