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...Berea, which was founded in 1855 as the first integrated college in the South, all 1,530 students work at least 10 hours a week in a campus or service job, earning $3.80 an hour and four years of free tuition. Eighty percent of the school's operating costs are funded by its endowment and the rest comes from donations, a tough combination these days: the school announced on Friday that it would lay off 30 employees, or 5% of the staff. Berea did not, however, back off from its commitment to offering a free education, and this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deci$ion$: How One College Snags So Many Students | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...state economy is still contracting, but an economic index released by the University of Massachusetts projects that the rate of decline is becoming less severe. According to the MassBenchmarks Current Economic Index, the state economy declined at an annualized rate of 4.2 percent in the first quarter of the year—less than the 4.7 percent decline in the fourth quarter of 2008. The index also forecasted declines of 3.1 percent in the second quarter and 2.8 percent in the third quarter of 2009. But despite the encouraging projected trend, economists said that the news was far from positive...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Massachusetts Economy Continues To Slide | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...despite the tumultuous economy, the 2008-2009 recruiting season revealed a great commitment from our employer partners to hire Harvard students. Although recruiting volume was down approximately 10 percent in the fall and another 20 percent in the spring, most employers opted to reduce rather than cancel their recruiting efforts, hired Harvard students for both full-time and internship positions, and plan to hire again in 2009-2010. With strong support from Harvard alumni within their organizations, many employers hope to “protect” entry-level hiring as much as possible...

Author: By Gregg Rosenblum and Ocs Staff | Title: Our Perspective | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...narrow the achievement gap. “We recognize there’s a lot to do in closing the achievement gap, but we are encouraged by the tremendous involvement of our community in the effort,” he said. Cambridge schools—which has a 64 percent minority enrollment, far higher than the 30.1 percent minority enrollment Massachusetts-wide—has seen 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 10th grade scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System state evaluations increase, according to Martin, who attributed the jumps partly to the district’s increased emphasis on reading...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Racial Gap Persists In School Scores | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...school students. The resources available to rural populations shape education in rural areas: in 2004, children in rural schools were less likely to have parents who had completed some form of post-secondary education than children in other areas.The 2007 study reported that, in 2002-2003, a mere 69 percent of rural, public -high-school students attended schools offering Advanced Placement courses, compared to 93 percent of public-high-school students in cities and 96 percent in suburbs. Rural public schools historically have also had fewer instructional computers with Internet access per capita and lower-paid teachers (even after adjusting...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: The Great Divide | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

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