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• Even in Pro-Gun States, Bid to Arm Teachers Stalls
• U.S. holds visa lottery for 85,000 skilled workers
• How to Make Retirement Possible on a Small Budget
• Does Harvard Need an Honor Code?
• Education Schools Innovate to Supply STEM Teachers

Even in Pro-Gun States, Bid to Arm Teachers Stalls Posted: 08 Apr 2013 03:40 PM PDT Four months after Newtown, push to arm school personnel stalls even in gun-friendly states

U.S. holds visa lottery for 85,000 skilled workers Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:47 PM PDT By Sarah McBride WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. visa program ran a lottery on Sunday to award 85,000 slots for high-skilled workers just one week after the application period opened, the Citizenship and Immigration Service said, signaling companies feel confident enough about the economy to hire more foreign workers. The USCIS held the lottery to approve petitions for the slots after it received approximately 124,000 H-1B petitions last week, including petitions filed for holders of advanced degrees from U.S. universities. ...

How to Make Retirement Possible on a Small Budget Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:25 PM PDT A woman named Hazel, now in her 90s, raised five children with her husband in southern California in the 1950s. One day a neighbor came over and proudly announced he had set aside $500 for his daughter Loretta's college education. Hazel envied that neighbor. Hazel and her husband had nowhere near that much money. How was she going to put five kids through college?

Does Harvard Need an Honor Code? Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:48 AM PDT Harvard, the oldest and most prestigous institution of higher education in the United States, has never been famous for the virtue of its students. ...

Education Schools Innovate to Supply STEM Teachers Posted: 08 Apr 2013 07:47 AM PDT Biologist Kaleigh LaRiche spent most of her first two years after college working in wildlife education at the Akron, Ohio, zoo. Today, she's a first-year science teacher in a Cleveland middle school.

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