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Gates Urges School Budget Overhauls
Bill Gates , the founder and former chairman of Microsoft, has made education-related philanthropy a major focus since stepping down from his day-to-day role in the company in 2008.
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Continuing Ed | Health: 45, Male and Now a Nurse
BALTIMORE’S gritty Levindale section is a world apart from Ponce Inlet, Fla., the upscale barrier island where Rich Van Rensselaer owned a boutique liquor store and coffee shop before becoming a trauma nurse. If you had asked Mr
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Briefly: Education
Grenoble M.B.A. program features lectures in 8 cities The Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France is planning to start an executive M.B.A.
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East Orange Journal: For a Singer’s 1940s Alma Mater, a 21st-Century Gift
EAST ORANGE, N.J. — Here is what a bridge over the digital divide looks like. Enlarge This Image Aaron Houston for The New York Times Two fifth graders, Fatime Sylla, left, and Angielene Allen, used the computers in the new technology lab of the Warwick school
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New Journalism Degree to Emphasize Start-Ups
The Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York wants to capitalize on some of the shifts that have rocked traditional journalism — and traditional journalists — with the creation of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism and a new master of arts degree in entrepreneurial journalism, which the school will announce on Monday.
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Haden, Trojans’ New Athletic Director, a Man of Many Fields
LOS ANGELES — Pat Haden, the new athletic director at Southern California, hopped into a golf cart Thursday morning and steered it two blocks off campus to McAlister Field to address the women’s soccer team, which was opening its season the next day. Enlarge This Image Danny Moloshok for The New York Times The Trojansâ?? new athletic director, Pat Haden, with grandchildren Luke, 6 months old, and Ben, 3, and his wife, Cindy, while attending a U.S.C. womenâ??s soccer game Friday
Mary Anna Dennard on College Theater Degrees
FOR students who want to pursue a life in the theater, picking the right college could mean the difference between thanking their parents at the Tony Awards and moving back to their parents’ basement.
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Inexperienced Companies Chase School Reform Funds
With the Obama administration pouring billions into its nationwide campaign to overhaul failing schools, dozens of companies with little or no experience are portraying themselves as school turnaround experts as they compete for the money. A husband-and-wife team that has specialized in teaching communication skills but never led a single school overhaul is seeking contracts in Ohio and Virginia.
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Undercounting Freshmen, Iowa Scrambles to Find Room
IOWA CITY — Like an airline overselling a flight, the University of Iowa extended admission this year to several thousand more applicants than it could accommodate on campus in this fall’s freshman class.
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French Professors Find Life in U.S. Hard to Resist