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Fact Check: First Lady’s False Fairy Tale of Struggle
First Lady Michelle Obama’s pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly about their early...
View ArticleAwarding Degrees for Visual and Performing Arts is the Result of a Long...
The decision to award degrees for visual and performing arts was taken in 1974 as a result of a long struggle by the lecturers and art students. Some of today’s main universities were functioning as...
View ArticleVisually Impaired Girls in Cameroon Struggle to Afford Education
There are as many as 100,000 visually impaired people in Cameroon, but just one government school for the visually impaired. Most blind students struggle to afford their education. And girls with...
View ArticlePrivate Schools Struggle to Fully Diversify – Walt Gardner’s Reality Check –...
Despite sincere efforts to diversify, private schools have been stymied in making minority students feel included. In the 2011-12 school year, for example, 26.6 percent of students in independent...
View ArticlePass / Fail : Prop. 30: OC schools struggle amid anti-tax fervor
During the last few months, California school districts have scrambled to prepare budgets and contingency plans for Prop. 30 — in some cases, walking a tightrope between advocacy and education. But...
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Los Angeles mayor: Education is our civil rights struggle – Schools of Thought
Editor’s note: Antonio Villaraigosa is the 41st mayor of the city of Los Angeles. By Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Special to CNN (CNN) – My story began like far too many people across this country. My...
View ArticleLouis van Gaal says Pep Guardiola will struggle with the German language –...
Louis van Gaal says Pep Guardiola will struggle with the German language – Football news Netherlands head coach, Louis van Gaal, said his spell was similar to the one Pep Guardiola will have at the...
View ArticleGerman firms still struggle to attract skilled foreign workers
Christoph Mücher had almost gotten used to the dwindling numbers of students signing up for the German courses he had been teaching at the Goethe Institute for the last 20 years. Mücher, who is now the...
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Against Academic Alibis: The Best Education is the Struggle – George...
CW: Could you say a little about how you got involved in radical organizing, particularly in relation to universities? Geo: I was radicalized in the post-Seattle moment. By post-Seattle, I mean that I...
View ArticleAdult English language learners struggle against program’s policy | Minnesota...
Educators also say the system is flawed because tests used to measure progress don’t provide a full picture of what a student has learned. Progress learning English is measured with standardized tests...
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Standalone Law Schools Struggle To Keep Up | Tipping the Scales
Standard & Poor’s Downgrades Standalone Law Schools And you thought lower enrollments were rough on the big schools? Well, it’s an outright crisis for stand-alones. That was the conclusion from a...
View ArticleStanford scholar: Global struggle continues for social justice, human rights
But as Carson points out, millions of people today are held back from countless opportunities because they are not official citizens. He said that while it is relatively easy for a high-tech worker...
View ArticleThe struggle of learning Mandarin Chinese.. | manchester on the road
你好，很抱歉, 我很忙！我学中文，很难，也很有趣！ Hello, I am very sorry, I have been very busy! I study Chinese, It is very difficult.. but also very interesting! So my time at Hong Kong Polytechnic University is shortly...
View ArticleSavings crippled by kids’ illnesses, parents in their late 50s struggle to...
Family Finance asked Graeme Egan, a financial planner and portfolio manager with KCM Wealth Management Inc. in Vancouver, to work with the couple. His strategy – maximize tax benefits associated with...
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Schools Struggle With Parents Over English Language Learning
Parents in California are worried that if they register their children for school and they are classified as an “English learner”, their children will be labeled as such and, possibly, will miss out...
View ArticleStruggle for top research grades fuels bullying among university staff |...
The fevered build up to this month’s university research audit has exposed academics to an atmosphere of competitiveness and bullying, according to a . More than half of UK university staff questioned...
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