Topic: United States
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facing a stagnant job market, law graduates from New York and Michigan schools on Wednesday accused their alma maters of duping graduates out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition by publishing misleading post-graduation employment and salary ...
Nation needs to change the way student achievement is tracked, measuredThe Clark County School District last week was placed on a watch list of districts that have failed to achieve standards set under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.The district made ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Higher education leads to better paying jobs and by 2018 almost two thirds of all occupations in the United States will require a college degree, according to a new study.Researchers at Georgetown University's Center on Education and ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan (Reuters) - A Kansas college hopes young doctors will be more willing to practice in small towns if they go to a medical school in a rural area.The University of Kansas will have what it says is the smallest ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - When 21-year-old Zhang, an average student in college, got set for the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) in Beijing this year, she felt so unprepared that she skipped the exam entirely.Forty days later, she flew to Vietnam and nailed a ...
New methods, ideas may be the key to reforming education, many sayNevada's state and local leaders say the key to education reform is in charter schools.The Nevada Legislature, urged by Gov. Brian Sandoval, recently passed a law creating a charter school authority ...
Decline affects almost every grade, officials say, but promise improvementClark County School District officials attributed a significant drop in test scores this year to a more rigorous test and higher proficiency standards.The School District on Thursday announced results of the 2011 Criterion ...
After 13 years representing Nevada's 1st Congressional District, Shelley Berkley wants a promotion — to the U.S. Senate. She announced her candidacy in April. And if she wins the Democratic nomination, she'll likely face newly appointed Sen. Dean Heller.In a recent interview, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The board of New Jersey's Rutgers University has slashed in half a recommended tuition hike, bucking the tide of historic tuition spikes at public colleges in cash-strapped states nationwide.The board of governors at Rutgers, New Jersey's state university, ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California became the first state on Thursday to require that public school textbooks include the accomplishments of gay, lesbian and transgender Americans as Governor Jerry Brown signed the mandate into law."History should be honest," Brown, a Democrat serving ...
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