[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o1R16juyQ4[/youtube] whitehouse — April 22, 2010 — Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, answers your questions about the clean energy economy. WhiteHouse.gov/earthday
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCB9g9UnlTY[/youtube] AssociatedPress — April 19, 2010 — A suburban Philadelphia high school district admits to secretly capturing 56,000 webcam photographs and screen shots from laptops issued to high school students. The School District lawyer says students likely were photographed inside their homes. (April 19)
The U.S. Department of Education is repealing a Bush-era policy that some critics argue was a way to avoid complying with federal law in providing equal opportunities for female athletes. Under the move, schools and colleges must now provide stronger evidence that they offer equal opportunities for athletic participation under the federal Title IX gender [...]
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlQH5QJtuBo[/youtube] Harmony Farm is a Khmer-run grassroots NGO in Cambodia. Harmony Farm strives to create a sustainable community in rural Beng Mealea, improving the lives of its children and practicing permaculture for self-sufficiency. Children’s Centre is home for poor, homeless, and vulnerable children, ages 5-18 Learning Centre opens its free classrooms to local village and [...]
America has spent more than $6 billion since 2002 in an effort to create an effective Afghan police force, buying weapons, building police academies, and hiring defense contractors to train the recruits—but the program has been a disaster. More than $322 million worth of invoices for police training were approved even though the funds were [...]
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The House won’t just be voting on health care this weekend. Packaged with it is a bill that cuts funding for private college loan lenders and redirects the billions saved to cash-strapped students. If it’s successful, the reforms will end a program started 50 years ago whereby banks receive government subsidies to lend students money for college. The federal [...]
(Xinhua) Updated: 2010-03-12 16:52 BEIJING – China’s Information Office of the State Council published a report titled “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009” here Friday. Following is the full text: The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11, 2010, posing [...]
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Kavita Ramdas and Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls discuss the militarization of society and how it hurts everyone, but especially women. - GRITtv with Laura Flanders [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-unajw77I[/youtube]
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Monday, February 15, 2010
We are proposing to make federal student loans more affordable by limiting a borrower’s payments to 10 percent of the income he or she has left over after covering basic expenses. Here is an example: The monthly payment for a single borrower earning $30,000 who owes $20,000 in loans would be $115 a month, compared [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Morning routines have been like this since the fall, when school officials mounted a mobile Internet router to bus No. 92’s sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech experiment has had an old-fashioned — and unexpected — result. Wi-Fi access has [...]
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Unlike other kinds of debt, student loans can be particularly hard to wriggle out of. Homeowners who can’t make their mortgage payments can hand over the keys to their house to their lender. Credit-card and even gambling debts can be discharged in bankruptcy. But ditching a student loan is virtually impossible, especially once a collection [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfq5b1bppJQ[/youtube] Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm wants to push nearly 40,000 veteran teachers into retirement to eliminate their hefty salaries from the state’s 2011 budget. The plan, introduced to state lawmakers last Friday and discussed in her final State of the State speech yesterday, would save an estimated $230 million a year, but it would also leave students [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
If you don’t have the right personality, you’ll suffer in the bearpit of today’s classrooms. In my experience, there are four types of teacher who are effective: the despot, the carer, the charmer, and the rebel. And none of them, in my experience, requires an upper-class degree. via What makes a great teacher? | Education [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Bogus degrees are nothing new. Black markets in fake diplomas are known to have existed as far back as 14th-century Europe. Today, so-called diploma mills based in the US sell roughly 200,000 degrees a year to customers around the globe. By some estimates, they sell as many PhDs as are awarded by legitimate American universities. [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Med Grow Cannabis College, located in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, is set to graduate its first class of students later this month. Its co-founder and president, Nick Tennant, the 24-year-old son of a General Motors Corp. employee, said he sees a significant opportunity to teach standards and safety in an industry that can eventually [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
As jobs become increasingly scarce, more and more college graduates are working for free, at internships, which is great for employers but something of a handicap for a young man or woman who has to pay for food or a place to live. [...] These recent graduates have done everything society told them to do. [...]
Thursday, October 1, 2009
So let’s imagine that the rest of their wealth, about $1.53 trillion, were available for the public good. What does $1.53 trillion buy? It’s more than enough to insure the uninsured for the next twenty years or more. It’s more than enough to create a Manhattan Project to solve global warming by developing renewable energy [...]
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