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CHICAGO (Reuters) - High school dropouts on average receive $1,500 a year more from government than they pay in taxes because they are more likely to get benefits or to be in prison, according to a U.S. study released on Wednesday."Dropping out ...
US and British institutions once again dominate an annual worldwide league table of universities published Thursday, but there is a fresh name at the top, unseating long-time leader Harvard.California Institute of Technology (Caltech) knocked the famous Massachusetts institution from the summit of ...
US and British institutions once again dominate an annual worldwide league table of universities published Thursday, but there is a fresh name at the top, unseating long-time leader Harvard.California Institute of Technology (Caltech) knocked the famous Massachusetts institution from the summit of ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Starting this week at Nash Elementary on Chicago's west side, students are getting up to 23 minutes more of math and 27 minutes more of language arts.At Disney II Elementary on the north side, children have more time for ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Religious freedom has always been a given in American life, but religious education has had a different road -- a path rarely without controversy as it tries to find a place in a secular and worldly democracy.While a rise ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Educational entrepreneur Chris Whittle, who pioneered charter schools and classroom television, is set to open the first of a network of 20 private schools to groom the next generation of global citizens."Avenues: The World School," will open in a ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama joked on Wednesday that Chinese President Hu Jintao was brave to visit Obama's hometown of Chicago in January -- the temperature will drop to 2 degrees this week, with brutal winds.Of all the garden spots in ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A building at Eastern Illinois University was evacuated on Thursday after someone discovered a "suspicious package" but campus activities were returning to normal, a school official said."Someone received what they considered a suspicious package and reported it. The building ...
Who's to blame for problems in our education system? Adults say parents are the problemBlaming teachers for low test scores, poor graduation rates and the other ills of American schools has been popular lately, but a new survey wags a finger closer ...
Emanuel won't commit to sending his kids to public schools if elected Chicago mayorFormer White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel wants to increase teacher training programs but says he won't commit to sending his kids to public schools if he's elected ...
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