Archive By Section - Education
Students who want a low-debt, high-paying job with the advancement opportunities that come with a four-year degree may soon not need look beyond their local community college.
September 07, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
Joel Peterson is currently chairman of Jet Blue and has been a board chairman and a leading private equity investor for major corporations over the past 40 years.
September 06, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
It's possible no book could have been better timed to explain the rise of Donald Trump than "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance, a national best-seller that narrates the author's adrift upbringing in Middletown, Ohio.
September 06, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
What do American parents really think of their public schools?
September 05, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
High school graduates looking for the next level of career training may have new, more flexible options if a new pilot program by the U.S. Department of Education works out.
September 04, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
A total of 470 students completed associate, bachelor's or graduate degrees at Fort Hays State University in the summer 2016 term.
September 03, 2016
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Tribune Staff
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Education
Kansas State University students know a spot that they love full well, according to the latest educational review publications.
September 03, 2016
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Tribune Staff
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Education
Stanford University has announced a new policy cracking down on booze on campus, NPR reports. Hard liquor will now be banned from most campus parties, while beer and wine are still allowed. And hard liquor possessed privately in dorms must be in very small bottles.
August 31, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
The ACT released its nationwide 2016 test results last week. The numbers are troubling but not necessarily surprising.
August 29, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
Jossalyn Jensen, a Juilliard School violist who won a Fulbright scholarship to study music in Paris for two years, is among the thousands of American students setting out to study abroad this fall.
August 29, 2016
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Megan McNulty
Deseret News
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Education
Whether its coming back after a long summer or starting kindergarten or preschool, children are often full of school-driven angst at the end of August.
August 27, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
National ACT average scores are down this year and ACT officials are attributing the drop to the increasing percentage of high school seniors who have taken the test. However, thanks in large part to the ACT Review program installed at Great Bend High School in 2015-2016, not only did 16 percent more students take the ACT at GBHS, but the average composite score maintained from the prior year and even increased from two years ago.
August 26, 2016
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Special to the Tribune
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Education
There is an emerging scientific and policy consensus that closing the school achievement gap between rich and poor will require educators and policy makers to focus on the first five years of life. Neuroscience is increasingly demonstrating this has an outsized impact on a child’s prospects as an adult.
August 25, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
You may want to stare down the puppy dog eyes of a pleading son or daughter to cosign their student loan so they can get a better interest rate, the New York Times suggests in a back to school primer for parents. There are some obvious advantages, but things can get complicated very quickly.
August 25, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education
Child prodigies who begin college in their late childhood or early teens are uncommon but not unheard of. The latest case to get attention is that of Jeremy Schuler, who enters Cornell's engineering program this month at age 12.
August 24, 2016
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Eric Schulzke
Deseret News
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Education