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Full Story »Investing in Education makes Economic sense
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Goldie Blumenstyk offers further incentive for the USA to invest in education. She reports that inventions in medicine, genetics, and alternative energy sources helped create over 500 university spinoff companies in 2008. It also generated more than 2 billion dollars in licensing for 156 institutions.
Full Story »Obama’s Proposal to increase Pell Grants
Are you aware that Congress must vote each year to approve Pell Grants? The Pell Grant is a federal funding award to lower income students going to college. The Pell program was started in the 1970s by Senator Claiborne D. Pell of RI (D). President Obama has requested for the second time that the Pell Grant become an entitlement which would keep pace with our economy by always staying 1% over the rate of inflation.
Full Story »The Uneducated American?
The UNeducated American. Several articles have been written on this subject, most recently by Paul Krugman in the OpEd section of the NY Times. Paul Krugman states, “If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word, that word would be EDUCATION.”
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