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News from Poughkeepsie Journal: Gary Stern, Westchester 9:30 p.m. EDT April 27, 2014 webkey Education(Photo: Chris Cusumano) Story Highlights “Maybe we need an educational version of the FDA to ensure that the products and practices that vendors and philanthropic dilettantes advance are tested before they are legislated and then used on children.” — Ken Mitchell, [...]

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News from CNBC.com: Philippe Lopez | AFP | Getty Images Students at Jing’an Education College Affiliated School were among the 500 Shanghai students who outperformed the rest of the world in reading, science and mathematics. If you think the business competition from China is hard now, brace yourself. It will likely get tougher in about [...]

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News from Town Hall: Education turned into a key issue in Wednesday’s first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney. Their visions could not have been more divergent and stark.Romney called for putting federal education dollars into the “backpack” of the student, empowering parents to pick the educational option that best meets [...]

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News from New York Times: Bobby Yip/Reuters Protesters gathered to demonstrate against the launch of national education outside government headquarters in Hong Kong on Saturday. HONG KONG — Faced with tens of thousands of protesters contending that a Beijing-backed plan for “moral and national education” amounted to brainwashing and political indoctrination, Hong Kong’s chief executive [...]

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News from San Francisco Chronicle: Washington – Tight school budgets have meant fewer teachers, larger classes and shorter school years, according to a White House report that President Obama says shows the need for Congress to pass his proposals to help states reduce teacher layoffs. The study concluded that 300,000 education jobs have been lost [...]

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News from ABC News: Companies that manufacture powerful, long-acting opioid painkillers will have to sponsor education programs about how to appropriately prescribe their drugs, according to the FDA. In the final version of the agency’s risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) for extended-release and long-acting opioids, such as OxyContin, it states that the education will [...]

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News from Boston.com: WASHINGTON (AP) — Borrowers hoping to consolidate their student loans through a special program created by President Barack Obama last year have just until Saturday to apply. To much fanfare, Obama used executive authority in October to launch a short-term initiative to allow borrowers to consolidate multiple loans into a direct government [...]

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News from The Seattle Times: SEATTLE — To improve higher education, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee wants to cap a state-backed student loan at a 3 percent interest rate, expand online courses to aid people who dropped out of college and increase partnerships with the state’s premier private colleges. But like Republican candidate Rob McKenna, [...]

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News from msnbc.com: >>> mitt romney talked about his plans for education this morning. at a struggling charter school in west philadelphia . romney has blamed teachers unions for what he calls a third world education system . outside democrats led by philadelphia mayor michael nutter said romney has no history of successful education reform [...]

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