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Bush carries message to college students
July 3, 2008President Bush touted his domestic agenda in the key states of Arizona and Ohio on Wednesday, the day after he delivered an optimistic assessment of the state of the union.
Political battle surges over Bush education policy
July 3, 2008Gearing up for an election-year fight over the centerpiece of his education agenda, President Bush hailed his "historic" No Child Left Behind Act Thursday and announced he will seek a substantial increase in its funding for 2005.
Education From a family worry to a new career Angela and Dedrick Briggs, Nashville
July 3, 2008Like all dads, Dedrick Briggs, 36, wants the best education for his kids. But the public schools in Nashville are in tough shape: 68% of them don't meet standards set by the federal No Child Left B...
Your Next Rivals/Here Comes the Competition The winners of our first annual MBA business-plan contest have
July 3, 2008If you think it's not a great time to start a business, you're right. Three years after the tech market crash left the Pets.com sock puppet in the Goodwill bin, investors aren't exactly clamoring f...
Extra Credit THE TEENS WHO MANAGE THE COUNTRY'S RICHEST STUDENT-RUN CREDIT UNION LEARN PLENTY--NOT ALL ABOUT MONEY.
July 3, 2008It's lunch hour at the Kent Denver School. The cafeteria is serving chicken over rice. Backpacks lie strewn across the common area. Some students sit and do homework, others sprawl on couches and t...
Eight Questions Every MBA Should Ask Business students are facing the worst recruiting season in recent memory. Suzanne Koudsi d
July 3, 2008Alysa Polkes guaranteed a room full of second-year MBA students a hundred grand. As head of the Career Management Center at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, she was tryin...
Welcome To The Bazaar Colleges across the country are competing for top students like never before. Their main weapon: cold, har
July 3, 2008The Nott's Memorial Building, dedicated in 1878 and named after Union College's former president Eliaphet Nott, looks like a gigantic 16-sided stone cylinder. This isn't as bad as it sounds once yo...
E-Curriculum: Easy Come, Easy Go
July 3, 2008Last winter Stanford's new e-commerce elective was the hottest thing on the business school's campus, with 28 students using their single "silver bullet" to secure one of the 66 available spots. Th...
'I Have At Least Nine Jobs' What's it like to be president of the university at the heart of Silicon Valley?
July 3, 2008College presidents seem increasingly beleaguered by their jobs these days, and no wonder. Unlike a corporate CEO, a university president has little formal power. He can't fire faculty, boss around ...
Class Struggle Does it matter if you're white or black? From a rich family or a poor one? When it comes to college admissions, i
July 3, 2008Thomas Jefferson considered himself the father of the University of Virginia, and like any father he left a complicated legacy. "Our university is the last of my mortal cares and the last service I...
