Many States Leave Behind Education Law
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More than 20 states have procrastinated in meeting the No Child Left Behind law’s requirement that all students reach grade-level proficiency by 2014 and will be hard-pressed to make needed improvements before the deadline, a report released today shows.
The Center on Education Policy (CEP) issued its report at the midway point of the 2002 NCLB [...]
Jobs Bonanza Business Education
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The Labour Fund yesterday announced that it will join MENA Business Services to help train 300 Bahrainis for the call centre services industry.
MENA Business Services, a company specialising in call centre services across the Gulf, handles business contracts worth $150 million and is undergoing a major expansion plan that will see it grow significantly.
This is [...]
Apollo results shares fall on lawsuit charges
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Education company Apollo Group Inc (APOL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) posted sharply lower quarterly net results on Thursday due to one-time charges stemming from a class- action lawsuit, sending its shares down more than seven percent.
The company reported a net loss for the second quarter of $32 million, or 19 cents a [...]
Pearson Isn#39;t Making Web Trade Better Than Newspapers (Update1)
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Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Pearson Plc Chief Executive Officer
Marjorie Scardino is selling newspaper assets and moving from
textbooks into online courses. The efforts arent bringing the
164-year-old publisher the valuation of Washington Post Co.,
whose shares cost 50 percent more.
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Yang#39;s 2 Blackjack EBay Failure Leave Yahoo Unready (Update2)
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Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — Fourteen years after publishing his
first guide to the Internet from a Stanford University trailer,
Jerry Yang isnt ready to see his creation absorbed by the
worlds largest software company.
Yahoo! [...]
Harvard Liberal Arts Faculty Votes to Distribute Research Free
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Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — Harvard University professors may
publish more research online, free to readers, after the
schools arts and sciences faculty adopted a new policy that may
be a blow to scholarly journal publishers.
The [...]
HIV Ignorance Is No Defense in Singapore Plan to Curb Risky Sex
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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Every weekend, men from Singapore
take a one-hour ferry ride to Indonesias Batam Island for cheap
golf, beer and sex.
About S$70 ($49) hires an island prostitute for the day,
compared [...]
Bank of East Asia#39;s Li Resigns From Hong Kong Cabinet (Update2)
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Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — David Li, the Hong Kong banker and
lawmaker whos paying $8.1 million to settle a U.S. probe into
alleged insider trading, resigned from the citys Executive
Council.
Li, chief executive officer [...]
Porn Stars Dr. Ruth `Freaked#39; Parents It#39;s Sex Week at Yale
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Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Free vibrating toys, a packed
lecture by sex therapist Dr. Ruth, skin-tight latex bodysuits
and a party at a bar named the Toad. Welcome to Sex Week at Yale
University.
The [...]
Bush Africa Trip Touts Successes Bypasses Places He Can#39;t Help
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Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush departs for
Africa tonight to highlight his commitment to the impoverished
continent and burnish his foreign-policy legacy.
In Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia, hell tout
initiatives [...]
