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President Bush signed an extension of the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans
Act. Since the original May 2008 enactment of this law, no student has been
unable to access federal student aid. The new law extends for another year
temporary provisions which help ensure access to loans.
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A recent interview with Senator John Glenn features the astronaut calling for more investment
in science education and research to improve global competitiveness.
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The World Economic Forum released
its annual Global competitiveness rankings in October. The U.S. remains on
top of the list of 134 countries. | |
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| Stat of the Week |
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New
reports from the College Board find that the career
college sector maintained the lowest one-year tuition increase of all sectors
in higher education, and experienced a 1.1 percent decline in tuition, after inflation. | |
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Project
Tomorrow
Through December 19,
elementary and secondary students, teachers, administrators, and parents can share
how they think technology should be used in the education process, through Project
Tomorrow's sixth annual Speak Up survey. |
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Harris N. Miller, President, CCA
Bob Cohen, Editor
Tinabeth Burton,
Managing Ed.
Luke Thomas, Contributing Ed. | |
| Expert Says School - Community Partnerships Need Bottom Line Benefits |
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Schools seeking collaborative partnerships with business may do better to keep
the focus of their appeals on business needs, not needy students.
At least
that’s the view of Brett Pawlowski, President, De Haviland Associates, Charlotte, NC,
and recent keynote speaker at the East Baton Rouge Parish Annual Partners in Education
Expo. Pawlowski is a consultant focused exclusively on building community
- school partnerships. In fact, Pawlowski maintains that there is little useful
information available on building effective business education partnerships, so
his company has expanded into clearinghouse operations, conferences and newsletters.
So just what do schools need to know about partnership building?
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often in education schools and districts reach out to the public with the hardship
stories,” Pawlowski says. “We’ve got all of these kids
who are having a hard time. We really need your help.’ What they don’t
realize is that they are not operating in a vacuum. If they go in and talk
to a business looking for support as sort of a charitable relationship, that business
is getting hit-up all of the time. The school people go in and make their
pitch and five minutes later the Make a Wish people are there. Five minutes
later it’s the homeless shelter or the orchestra or some other group.
Everybody is going for the same charitable angle.”
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| International
Wealth Gap Widens, New Report Finds |
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A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), Growing Unequal, finds that the economic gap between the rich and the poor
has grown in the vast majority of OECD countries, and that the economic growth
of recent decades has benefited the rich more than the poor. In some countries,
such as Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway
and the United States, the gap also increased between
the rich and the middle-class.
The report found that the ability to move from one social class to another
is lower in countries with high economic inequality, such as Italy, the United
Kingdom and the United States, and higher in the Nordic countries
where income is distributed more evenly.
A key driver of income inequality
has been the number of low skilled and poorly educated who are out of work, the
OECD says. While wages have been improving for those people who were already well
paid, employment rates have been dropping among less-educated people.
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