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Can Education I.P.O. Pave Brighter Path for the Future?
If Grand Canyon Education manages to get a planned $179 million initial public offering off the ground this week, it will break a nearly four-month drought in U.S. I.P.O.’s.
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Higher education formula revised
A freshman engineering student is three times more valuable to a university than a first-year liberal arts student under the state’s proposed higher education formula.
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Rochester School District plans to hire special education staff
When the Rochester School District begins operating its own special education program next school year, it hopes to have on staff as many of the existing special education teachers and aides as possible, according to School Superintendent Tom Bertrand. Rochester is withdrawing from the Sangamon Area Special Education District at the end of this school year and will operate its own special ...
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An elite education: Obama's school choice
Will Barack Obama, a man of the people, entrust his daughters' education to the Washington, D.C., public school system?
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Education leader proposes audit requirements
By Dr. Veronica C. Garcia/For the Sun-News In response to the editorial by the Las Cruces Sun-News on Nov. 14, 2008: The Public Education Department (PED) has not been missing in action.
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Heads clash over bilingual education
Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner and the Northern Territory Education Minister have locked horns over the issue of bilingual education.
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Rounds: Don't expect boost to education funding
Gov. Mike Rounds says next year will bring the "worst budget scenario that we have seen" and doubts state aid for education will be in for much of an increase.
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Framingham parents group to host special education forum
The town's special education advisory organization is offering parents and educators training on better ways to teach students with special needs while in school.
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| World News In Brief |
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World stocks fall on Citigroup cuts
Most world stock markets fell Monday after Citigroup Inc. said it would cut another 53,000 jobs around the world to deal with the fallout from the financial crisis. Asian shares were steady earlier.
Obama, Biden speaks with world leaders
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden spoke with several world leaders by phone Monday.
Biden speaks with world leaders
Vice President-elect Joe Biden spoke with several world leaders by phone Monday.
World cotton production falls as farmers turn to new crops
World cotton production is set to fall six percent to 24.7 million tons over the next year as growers turn to other crops to make money, an international trade body said Monday.
TOKYO: World's second-largest economy is in recession
Japan's economy slid into a recession for the first time since 2001, the government said. The world's second-largest economy contracted at an annual pace of 0.4 percent in the July-September period after a declining an annualized 3.7 percent in the second quarter. The result was worse than expected.
World stocks slide on Citigroup jobs cull
U.S. and European stock markets fell Monday after Citigroup Inc. announced that it would cut another 53,000 jobs around the world in the coming quarters to deal with the fallout from the financial crisis. Asian shares were steady earlier.
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