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Business Schools Step Up Efforts to Attract More Women to Pricey Degree

What’s the one word many students use to describe school?

"Boring"

Many students need extra aid to pay spring-semester tuition.

I want us to push the boundaries of discovery so that you’ll live to see new technologies and inventions that improve our lives and make our planet cleaner and safer.

Our goal is to help state policymakers accelerate the development of a college- and
career-ready policy agenda.

With physicists across the country pushing for universities to do a better job of teaching science, M.I.T. has made a striking change.

A white paper drafted with the project says that current assessment tools are badly in need of an overhaul — and therefore stymieing efforts at education reform.

"It’s something that should have been done a long time ago. This is not a gimmick. This is good public policy."

Chris Myers Asch is promoting the creation of a Public Service Academy, a sort of West Point for bureaucrats offering a free four-year education in exchange for five years of government service.

For the 2009-2010 academic year, the Northern Plains Eye Foundation in Rapid City is offering a total of $11,000 in health care education scholarships for deserving students in the northern plains region, which includes all of South Dakota, northeast Wyoming, northwest Nebraska, southeast Montana and southwest North Dakota.