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House offers hope for student-parents - Sunday, July 20, 2008
More than 125 National City Bank volunteers worked yesterday to prepare the Family Scholar House, a 56-apartment facility that will house single parents attending college and their children. The...

Yerington student honored at Whitworth - Friday, October 03, 2008
Charity Triplett of Yerington joined the largest graduating class in Whitworth history as the university celebrated its 118th Commencement in mid-May in Spokane, WA., and when she was...

Universities earn record amount from working with industry - Thursday, July 10, 2008
Universities saw a dramatic rise in earnings from working with industry last year, reaching a record total of £2.6bn. That represents a 17% increase in business funding compared with...

Turning Around the Idea of Student Loans - Monday, December 01, 2008
LAS VEGAS — Over sandwiches and pizza, a group of high school students here debated the pros and cons of combating poverty in five desperate nations. They scrolled through Web sites,...

No easy answers to nation's student dropout problem - Saturday, October 25, 2008
We heard a common theme. Dropouts are a national crisis, the problem is not something schools are responsible for entirely, nor is it something they can fix entirely. And, as I learned...

1 in 4 students in state drop out - Friday, July 18, 2008
Nearly 1 in 4 of California's 6.3 million students drop out of school, according to new statistics released Wednesday by the California Department of Education. The report, based on...