Education
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America’s smartest cities
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Communication
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Bad Writing: As Written Communication Skills Deteriorate, Business Schools Take Aim
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Tools
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Boss Puts The iPod to Work "When Gaddis Rathel needed to learn Spanish for his job, his
boss gave him an unusual tool to help: a black video Apple iPod, preloaded with language
lessons."
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College
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College Admissions Myths
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Education Loans
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Funds for your future
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Education
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Is a liberal arts degree a waste? "Do business employers see a degree in English as
useless and irrelevant? Is it harder for college grads with a liberal arts degree to get hired? Is
it better for college students to major in business instead?"
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Tools
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links should not be missing "The web is changing the way we read and learn...Blogs,
particularly personal blogs, are easy. You think about something. You write that something
down. Then you broadcast that written something over the Internet, and generally everyone
gets what you are saying — even while occasionally becoming queasy about how well you have
said it."
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Liberal Arts
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Major Dilemmas for Liberal Arts Grads So what are you going to do with your major?
...You've got a bachelor's degree. Where do you go from here?"
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Textbook Scam
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Math teacher charged in alleged textbook scam in LA "A former public school official was
indicted on charges that he made the district buy almost $4 million worth of algebra textbooks
he authored, prosecutors said Friday."
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Education Loans
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Paying for College
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Education Loans
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Repaying Education Loans
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Roach College, U.S.A. What Ph.D. students really have to fear.
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Education Loans
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Scholarships
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Education
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Schooled for unemployment "Britain's expensive education system has churned out a huge
underclass that doesn't have a chance in a global economy."
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Education Loans
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School For Scandal College costs of $50,000 a year?
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Education Loans
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STATE EDUCATION RATES
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Education
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Street smarts: Is a college degree enough to get started?
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Education
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Success without a college degree
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Attitudes
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Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. "These are the words of the “experienced
employee”. The non-student type who found no significance in their college courses..."
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Employers
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Top 10 Employers of the Class of 2006 "The biggest employers of the class of 2006 won't
necessarily be the nation's largest companies."
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Education
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Top 10 Highest Paying Occupations For Which a Degree Isn't Required "Here are the
highest paying occupations, by median hourly wage, for which a college degree is not
required..."
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Textbook Scam
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Web Sites Challenge the Textbook Goliaths "The college textbook market has functioned
as a near-perfect monopoly. Consider: How often does someone have the authority to order
consumers to purchase a product with a limited number of vendors? University professors have
just that power, requiring students to purchase particular books for their courses."
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Education Tests
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About.com: What is a Good SAT Score? "The best possible score on the SAT is a 2400, a
score achieved by just hundreds of the more than a million students who take the SAT each
year. The average SAT score is about 1540..."
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