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...Part of this controversy is [because] the registrar does not mention the specialization,” Lewis said. “Whichever track you followed would not be recorded on the diploma or to the registrar...
Other universities have already been challenging this notion of exclusivity, turning to the creed of open education. In 2001, Massachusetts Institute of Technology started to make course information available online. MIT OpenCourseWare (www.ocw.mit.edu) now contains over 1,800 courses, open to all, denying only the promise of a diploma. The program became almost an instant success. OCW averages one million visits each month, hitting a record high of two million hits a month in 2007. Almost half of the site’s visitors in 2005 were self-learners, according to a report completed...
...think Obama is Muslim as those who have. And not coincidentally, it is among these less educated white voters that McCain is strongest. Among non-Hispanic whites who have attended graduate school, according to Gallup this month, Obama leads McCain by 13 points. Among those with a high school diploma or less, he trails...
...Georgia Schools Earn an F The Clayton County, Ga., school system became the first in the U.S. in almost 40 years to lose its accreditation, six months after a regional agency demanded that the Atlanta-area district reform its dysfunctional school board. Many colleges require a diploma from an accredited high school, leaving 50,000 Clayton County students in limbo unless the district turns itself around by next fall...
...education," says Tang Min, chief China economist at the Asian Development Bank. A human-resources executive who helped produce a report on the subject for the American Chamber of Commerce in China puts it more bluntly: "the vast majority of [Chinese] kids go to second- or third-rate schools - diploma mills - and are just unprepared to enter a very competitive job market. They're getting ripped...