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Latin Post: Latinos and STEM Education: Nuestro Futuro Latino Education Conference Spurs Students Toward High Tech Careers

By Robert Schoon While there is a dearth of diversity in Silicon Valley, high-tech industries in the U.S. are expanding…

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From BBC: Spending Review: Schools to get ‘fair funding’ formula

By Branwen Jeffreys Plans to redress differences in school funding across England are expected to be outlined in the Autumn…

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6 Terms to Know Before Opening a 529 College Savings Account

By Deborah Ziff Investors choosing to open a 529 college savings plan portfolio are given options with sometimes confounding names,…

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From The Texas Tribune: Who Will Be the Next Texas Education Chief?

By Morgan Smith A few days after Michael Williams announced he would step down as the state’s top education official…

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Reuters: Laurene Powell Jobs backs Amplify education company bought from News Corp

By Liana B. Baker Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple Inc (AAPL.O) co-founder Steve Jobs, is the lead investor who…

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Yahoo News: Slow U.S. tuition growth is ‘new normal’ for higher education: Moody’s

(Reuters) – U.S. universities and colleges should expect to see sluggish tuition growth next year, according to a report released…

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From USA Today: Major rewrite of education law clears crucial hurdle

By Mary Troyan WASHINGTON — States would set and enforce their own K-12 academic standards under a massive, bipartisan rewrite…

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Hechinger Report: Can Real Global Learning Happen Online?

This fall, after getting to know each other in online video exchanges, some Ugandan high school students told a group…

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Hechinger Report: Number of Americans with college degrees growing more slowly than advocates want

Slow rate of growth threatens to leave a gap of 20 million degree-holders by 2025 I NDIANAPOLIS—Seven years after setting…

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ABC News: Florida Teacher Starts Each Day Complimenting Students One by One

By Genevieve Shaw Brown In classrooms across the country, the school day almost always starts off with some kind of…

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