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• On a tight budget? Try applying to Harvard
... Best Value Colleges for 2009,” issued Thursday by The Princeton Review and USA TODAY, spotlights 50 public and 50 private colleges and universities that do an exceptional job of helping qualifying students to pay for their higher education.
• Poorer education tied to preterm birth risk
NEW YORK - Pregnant women with low levels of education are nearly twice as likely as their more educated peers to give birth prematurely, researchers from the Netherlands report. However, most of the risk can be attributed to the disadvantages that ...
• Obama assembles powerful West Wing
Bronx politician Adolfo Carrion Jr. is expected to serve in another new White House post, implementing Obama's education and housing agenda for cities. Former senator Thomas A. Daschle will become the first Cabinet secretary in decades to have an ...
• National Report Card Gives Florida A B-Minus
TAMPA - Even while Florida's schools struggle financially, a report card issued Wednesday by Education Week magazine shows them making academic progress and ranks the state 10th nationwide. Florida received an overall grade of B-minus, up from last ...
• Mississippi now has highest teen birth rate
Blaming abstinence-only education Some experts have blamed the national increase on increased federal funding for abstinence-only health education that does not teach teens how to use condoms and other contraception. They said that would explain why ...