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Want to show that most college students have a negative attitude about their life's goals? Ask them while it's raining.
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North Carolina recently started an "education lottery." The New York Times assesses its success.
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A thoughtful article: The Real Mozart Effect and why we should support music education
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If you haven't seen this video yet, here's your chance. A sad day for the rebel alliance. (And a better video than the one on Gizmodo)
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Isn't it somthing the riches country in the world, has to depend on the lottery, to educate the children. If the republicans had their way there wouldn't be any schools, because the tax payer has to pay for them. It's no accident the US keeps falling further behind in education and elsewhere with the rest of the industrial countrys. This is the republican congress at it's best. While countrys like japan, germany, france, russia, india, china, etc. have been leaping ahead of the US in education since Reagonomics, we can't compete in a global economy. The US government refuses to spend the money on education or anything else for that matter, other than helping big bussiness make more money then they already do. They tell us we need to import more people from abroad to fill jobs were not qualified for. Why is that, other countrys spend more then we do on educating their people. It really somthing what the republicans have done to the US in the last forty years. We went from number one to fifteen, in a short time, of neglect, and they don't have a problem with it, wait till it bites them in the ass.