Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 8, Clicks: 3) View Story
Mainstream educators and commentators are warning that the United States, once in the forefront among advanced capitalist societies in graduation rates, has fallen to 12th place and is still tumbling. Many are concerned that education has become a national security issue. Others point out that the engines of the global economy are math and science and this country is turning out fewer trained physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians and computer scientists.
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Tags: us education policy |
Topic: Education Policy
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Sculb sumitted ago via http://arkansasnews.com (Views: 8, Clicks: 3) View Story
The bill would increase spending on nutrition programs by $4.5 billion over 10 years, offset by spending cuts to other agriculture programs so the deficit is not increased. The measure would establish nutritional standards for all food sold in schools, including the food in vending machines, and increase the federal reimbursement rate for school meals by 6 cents per meal — the first increase other than inflationary increases since 1973.
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Tags: child nuitrition senator blanche lincoln |
Topic: Education Policy
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Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 13, Clicks: 4) View Story
Higher education has a responsibility not only to search for the truth regardless of where it may lead, but also to educate students to make authority and power politically and morally accountable. What needs to be understood is that higher education may be one of the few institutions we have left in the United States where knowledge, values and learning offer a glimpse of the promise of education for nurturing public values, critical hope and a sense of civic responsibility.
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Topic: Higher Education
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Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 11, Clicks: 3) View Story
Current trends and recent history can also be dangerously misleading. An example is the Thanksgiving turkey that is being fattened up for slaughter. As the turkey sees it, daily experience reinforces the image of the butcher as a benefactor who can be counted on to provide delightful delicacies on a daily basis — a good friend — right up until the day when the butcher reveals his true intentions.
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Tags: economic theory probability efficiency |
Topic: Other
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