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Christopher Booker: To describe Angel’s path to her bachelors’s degree as a journey driven by grit and determination would be an understatement. But she says it actually started unexpectedly, when her first daughter was just two years old. Amber Angel: I was working at Baby Gap, 'cause I ...
... offer, appear to be the new kind of training program, though Busteed said universities could do more to integrate them part of a student’s graduation requirements. WATCH: Automation threatens jobs. Can education create new ones? At the University of Utah, the new Degree Plus program seeks to fill the ...
The spread of education across developing nations is transforming global inequalities and playing a key role in closing the gender gap. Economics correspondent Paul Solman sits down with economist Surjit Bhalla and sociologist Ravinder Kaur to discuss Bhalla’s book, “The New Wealth of Nations,” as well as the backlash ...
... MORE: Without changes in education, the future of work will leave more people behind Thus, the meal-plan collaboration also served as an important stop-gap: The Culinary Arts program lost a teacher through the budget crisis, which resulted in the remaining culinary instructor being over-stretched and struggling to ...
... you know, raising test scores. That shouldn't be the end of schooling. JEFFREY BROWN: Right. JOHN MERROW: You know, people talk about the achievement gap. Well, first, we should say, wait a minute, there's an expectations gap. There is also an opportunity gap. If you close those two ...
... Women surpassed men in education and nearly caught up with them in terms of work experience, which played an important role in reducing the wage gap. In the case of education there was a dramatic reversal of the gender gap. In 1981, women had lower average levels of schooling than ...
... content that was asked of them on this assessment," said Carr. "It was a difficult assessment, a challenging assessment." On the bright side, the achievement gap has narrowed between white and Hispanic students from a difference of 32 to 23 points in an average score in music and from 26 ...
... over the last five years, yet often those drops have been small, even as states adopted new K-12 standards aimed at aligning high school graduation requirements and college-readiness standards. No one has completely bridged the gap, said David Steiner, executive director of the Institute for Education Policy at ...
Forty percent of U.S. university and college undergraduate and graduate students are 25 and older, according to U.S. Education Department data. Yet colleges and universities are largely not set up to deal with them, causing their enrollment to fall.
Federal financial aid for college is often underutilized due to the complexity of required paperwork; however, 90% of students who do complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) enroll in school. This year, the FAFSA is being streamlined in the hope of increasing participation. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Kim Cook, executive director of...
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