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Obama urges Morehouse College graduates to help others
WASHINGTON — President Obama urged graduates of a celebrated historically black college Sunday to use their education to help others and to work for "something larger than yourself," citing the example of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr....
Tags: Barack Obama, Colleges and Universities, Education, Morehouse College, Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Cal State students face yet another fee – for graduation
Before many Cal State seniors walk across the stage to receive a diploma in coming weeks, they will have to break out their wallet at least once more. More than half of Cal State universities charge a commencement fee — a requirement to graduate....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Education
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Obama, at Ohio State, calls on graduates to be active citizens
WASHINGTON — Speaking to the graduating class of Ohio State University in Columbus on Sunday, President Obama called on the students to embrace the school’s motto, “education for citizenship,” and to press the government to act....
Tags: Barack Obama, United States Naval Academy, Human Interest, Morehouse College, Berlin Wall's Fall (1989)
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Brown wants to tie some funding of universities to new proposals
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown wants to tie some state funding for California's public universities to a host of new requirements, including 10% increases in the number of transfer students from community colleges and the percentage of freshmen...
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Sal Castro dies at 79; L.A. teacher played role in 1968 protests
Sal Castro, a veteran Los Angeles Unified School District teacher who played a central role in the 1968 "blowouts," when more than 1,000 students in predominantly Latino high schools walked out of their classrooms to protest inequalities in education,...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Politics, Korean War (1950-1953), Colleges and Universities, Students
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The basics of better schools
The bile flowed freely in the first round of L.A.'s school board elections in March, fueled by unprecedented sums of campaign money. To what end? Listening to the ads of the self-styled reformers, you'd have thought that charter schools were the...
Tags: Politics, Teaching and Learning, Human Interest, Students, Los Angeles Unified School District
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Law school graduates aren't finding much on the employment docket
SAN FRANCISCO — Michael D. Lieberman decided to enroll at Southwestern Law School after reading that 97% of its graduates were employed within nine months. He graduated in 2009, passed the bar on his first try but could not find a job as a lawyer....
Tags: Legal Service, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Judges, Legal Services
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Letters: Law grads' employment plight
Re "A thin jobs docket for law grads," April 2 Thank you for shedding light on what has become a pervasive issue among recent law school graduates like myself. As a fellow Southwestern Law School alumnus, I sympathize with Michael D. Lieberman's plight,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Would it be fairer to make college debt-free for the poor?
Does it make sense for two students, one from a poor family, one from a middle-class family, to graduate from college with different levels of debt? I was surprised to find myself in a hot debate recently with a policy person at the Education Trust, a...
Tags: Barack Obama, Finance, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Students
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NCAA women's basketball players outscore men in classroom
March Madness does not officially begin until first-round games tip off this afternoon, but already we have a winner. The women. In what has become an annual -- and predictable -- result, the teams in the women's NCAA tournament outscore the men's...
Tags: Villanova Wildcats, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Basketball, Sports
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Cal State Fresno offers new online writing tutorial program
L.A. NOWStudents who want to improve their writing skills or fulfill graduation requirements can get help through a new online tutorial program offered by Cal State Fresno, officials said Thursday. With the Self-Paced Online Tutorial program, or SPOT, Cal State... -
2013 State of the Union: Full prepared transcript
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...
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