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US Education Secretary Duncan: Congress has just a few weeks to find more dollars for schools

DES MOINES, Wash. - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says Congress needs to act now to find more money for the nation’s schools.

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Thousands of students protest German education

Thousands of students are marching through German cities demanding more money for education and an overhaul of the nation’s education system.

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Think tank: Education key to landing jobs today

The trend away from high-wage jobs with low educational requirements accelerated during the recession in both Michigan and the rest of the nation, with the biggest job losses wracking the industries in fields that require little education and leaving those with higher educational requirements nearly untouched.

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New Zealand Ranks Poorly In OECD For Education Spending

WELLINGTON, May 14 (Bernama)– New Zealand’s relatively low wealth is being blamed for international statistics showing the nation’s education spending among the lowest in the developed world, the Dominion Post reported Friday.

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Despite ranking, Md. falling behind in education reforms

Despite its No.

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Kasem urges more education for agriculturists

Under the second round of education reform, the Education Ministry should focus not only on students in the system, but also on the majority of Thai people - who are the backbone of the nation - in order to drive the country forward, Privy Councillor and former education minister Kasem Watanachai urged recently.

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Choice Bus shows students two sides of education (USA Today)

Half school bus and half jail cell, the Choice Bus is the brainchild of Shelley Stewart of the Mattie C. Stewart Foundation in Birmingham, Ala., an education institution that targets the nation’s dropout rate.

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Education chief pitches No Child rewrite plan (CNN)

Saying the United States is “falling behind” in education, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan worked Wednesday to persuade lawmakers that the Obama administration’s plan to rewrite a federal education law is the right move for the nation’s students and schools.

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Array of Hurdles Awaits New Education Agenda (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

In the blueprint for overhauling federal education policy that President Obama sent to Congress on Monday, his administration seeks to confront some of the major educational challenges that have developed during the eight years that President George W.

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ANSI Seeks Comments on Proposal for ISO Standard on Management Systems for Education … (ThomasNet)

ANSI and Latvian Standard (LVS), the national standards body of Latvia, are considering joint submission of proposal to ISO for standard on management system requirements for all education organizations. Its aim is to enhance satisfaction through effective application of system as well as to enable organization to know degree to which it fulfills its requirements, controls its resources, and …

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