Category: Education
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Why churches are a hotbed for finance education?
Christian Science Monitor: Why churches are a hotbed for finance education Personal finance classes offered by churches are often well-attended by the congregation. Some of the things that make these classes successful can be helpful to people who don't attend church, too. Over the last few years, I couldn’t help but notice that several churches…
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Burden of student loans squeezing grads
New York Times: Burden of student loans squeezing grads In some circles, student debt is known as the anti-dowry. Student loan debt outpaced credit card debt for the first time last year and is likely to top a trillion dollars this year as more students go to college and a growing share borrow money to…
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Is There Real Competition Between Universities?
David Leonhardt writes: …If someone asked your grandparents 50 years ago to name the country’s best colleges, they would have come up with a list that looks very much like the list you’d come up with today. Can you think of any other industry in which that’s the case? Or go back only to 1983,…
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Are Prepaid Debit Cards Bad for Teens?
US News Money: Are Prepaid Debit Cards Bad for Teens? With two teenagers in the house, my wife and I spend a considerable amount of time discussing family finances. And for this reason, a recent article by Sheryl Nance-Nash caught my attention. In the article she argues that prepaid debit cards are a bad idea…
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Social Scientist Sees Bias Within
New York Times: Social Scientist Sees Bias Within SAN ANTONIO — Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting. Discrimination is always high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s conference, where psychologists discuss their research on racial prejudice, homophobia, sexism,…
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On Evolution, Biology Teachers Stray From Lesson Plan
New York Times: On Evolution, Biology Teachers Stray From Lesson Plan Teaching creationism in public schools has consistently been ruled unconstitutional in federal courts, but according to a national survey of more than 900 public high school biology teachers, it continues to flourish in the nation’s classrooms. Researchers found that only 28 percent of biology…
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U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead
Bloomberg: U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead …Meanwhile, the perception is that American children live a relatively easy life and coast their way through school. They don't do any more homework than they have to; they spend an extraordinary amount of time playing games, socializing on the Internet, text-messaging each other; they work part time…