The number of women in law school has gone from 4% in 1963 to 44% today, and the number in medical school increased from 6% to 49%.
Yet, high repetition rates persist in many countries: every child starting school today in the Arab States, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, risks repeating a year, or more.
Of course, children in school today will be dealing with the consequences of climate change for their entire lives.
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Today, school lunch in New York City has significantly improved - many schools have salad bars and there is attention to providing healthy meals.
So I stand here, looking at this beautiful, 60% female crowd, and wonder what the hookup culture would have meant to me if I'd been in school today.
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At a town hall meeting today on school safety at the Classical Magnet School in Hartford, I got to hear firsthand how Connecticut is leading the nation in adopting common-sense solutions to reduce gun violence and improve school safety.
In any school today it takes a heroic effort for an educator to meet the needs of every student and foster a love for learning.
Society needs to consume less of everything from automobiles to air conditioning if it wants to confront climate change, according to Daniel Farber, a professor of environmental law at the University of California, Berkeley and founder of Legal Planet, while speaking today at Pace Law School in White Plains, NY.
Does the fact that there is a primary school in the neighbourhood mean that the socioeconomic condition of children in India today allows them to go to that school?
Forty percent of the world's out-of-school kids of primary-school age live today in conflict-affected countries.
Today the British school kid is in San Francisco and announcing pretty decent download numbers for Summly.
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Today in Michigan, not only can school boards authorize charters but so can state universities and community colleges.
But I sort of feel that, you know, if Thomas Edison were in the school system today, he wouldn't have failed 10, 000 times before that one time that he figured out the real one - you know, the answer to the question.
In Britain today white, working-class children now seem to do worse in school than immigrants.
Marano, an editor-at-large at Psychology Today, tells about a high school in Washington State that required students to write an eight-page paper and present a ten-minute oral report before graduating.
Students at Sheldon School in Wiltshire will today, 26 March 2010, take part in a videoconference organised by the United Nations HQ in New York to discuss the impact of the slave trade.
Today, about 90% of children in the school system are white, according to the Texas Education Agency.
However, we all know that in today's economy, a high school diploma is usually not enough to prepare students for the high-skill, high-paying jobs of the 21st century.
Today, more than 500 elementary school students in our local public school hauled recyclable bags filled with more recyclable plastic bags to school to mark America Recycles Day.
The day after the incident there's an eerie feel around the school, but today has gone normally, which is great to see, and hopefully the pupils in the school will put the incident behind them over the weekend and continue with normal life.
In Pakistan today, a missile hit a religious school near the border with Afghanistan.
Today, Liberty is in her third year of dental school at the University of Washington.
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Without a major effort, there is a real danger that there will be more children out-of-school in 2015 than there are today.
The principle itself I think the President believes is very important, that in today's economy, it is vitally important that states take action to ensure that Americans stay in school, that they get the education they need -- the minimum education they need to be competitive in the workplace.
Chicago-based startup Proper Suit is doing another of its fitting events in DC today, where customers spend an hour in a private meeting with tailors who take precise measurements (old school) for an AutoCAD-constructed suit that arrives in the mail approximately four weeks later (new school).
The unions estimate about 40 of the secondary school's teachers took part in today's strike.
Today, another in our series of reports on Northwestern High School in Baltimore.
In an interview published today in The Wall Street Journal, he discusses why the school is shifting gears on curriculum.
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Today, nearly 1, 500 students are educated in the school, which boasts an eight-building campus with 16 classrooms, a science lab and library.
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