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When Israel's oldest kibbutz, Degania, announced that it was giving up its socialist ideals and going private--members could own homes and earn salaries based on how hard they worked--few other than the kibbutzniks themselves were happy. For many Israelis, Degania was a symbol of rosier days, a Zionist idyll of honest work and camaraderie. But for those who called it home, the kibbutz had become an anachronism as rusty as the battered farm tools on display for tourists. Today, the younger generation of kibbutzniks pines for individualism. Tamara Gal-Sarai gazes out over the kibbutz lawn until...
Jones, a 28-year veteran of the admissions office, listed degrees on her resume from three schools in upstate New York but did not earn any of them, an MIT spokeswoman said. The schools were Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Albany Medical College, and Union College...
...Several newspaper profiles of Jones, including those in the New York Times and Boston Globe, have reported that she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry and biology from RPI in Troy, N.Y. The registrar at RPI, Sharon Kunkel, said today that Jones attended the school but did not earn any degrees...
...study found that not only do women earn 80 percent of what recent male graduates make one year out of college, but that gap widens by 11 percentage points 10 years after graduation, with women earning 69 percent of what men earn. A disparity still exists, albeit smaller, after controlling for occupational or lifestyle factors affecting earnings...
...states to agree to a demanding set of standards for K-12 education. Right now, according to an analysis by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, only nine states earn a B-minus or above for what they teach...