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Schumer wants student loan market to be protected - Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Sen. Charles Schumer says particular attention needs to be paid during the current financial upheaval to make sure the student loan market is protected from the credit crunch.
The New...
Report: 90,000 NYC students miss 1 month school - Tuesday, October 21, 2008
NEW YORK - A new report says that more than 90,000 elementary students in New York City missed at least one month of classes during the last school year.
The report released Tuesday...
New York Students Improve in Reading and Math - Monday, June 23, 2008
Reading and math scores for New York students in grades three through eight improved significantly across the state this year, with particularly sizeable gains in the large urban areas,...
Affiliated Computer gets $67M student loan pact - Wednesday, June 25, 2008
NEW YORK - Affiliated Computer Services Inc. said it won a seven-year deal to provide loan servicing for Student Loan Finance Corp.
ACS said the deal is worth $67 million, all told.
The...
College Students Face Fierce Competition for Summer Jobs - Sunday, May 17, 2009
Roughly 100 people crammed into a small Manhattan restaurant, hoping to be hired to one of the two available job positions
With roughly a hundred people crammed into Marcello Assante's...
Gay school's students get a history lesson with 'Milk' - Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Gay students who attend this cozy third-floor Greenwich Village high school did not live through the launch of the national gay rights movement, which unfolded a few blocks away, and...
Student Entrepreneurs Compete For the Best Pitch - Friday, October 24, 2008
Evelyn_EspinozaA landscaping and lawn-care business; a candy factory; a yoga class; a smoothie store in the school cafeteria; and an online costume retailer for kids and adults.
Those...
US schools experiment with paying students - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
WASHINGTON- Friday is payday at KIPP DC: KEY Academy, and some sixth-grade girls gather at the makeshift school store trying to decide how to spend their hard-earned money.
They received...
Student startups trade sleep for possibility - Sunday, February 22, 2009
Stanford senior Stephen Sebro hasn't been getting much sleep. His coursework is intense, graduation is looming and then there's the matter of launching a startup from his dorm room.
The...
Texas can make college affordable with political will - Sunday, June 08, 2008
Not long ago, students planning to attend a Texas college or university typically worried only about the letters that spell SAT or ACT, the college entrance exams. These days, another...
