Roughly three out of four home-based women business owners in America are college-educated.
America's college-educated class is now a much larger share of the population than it was.
I'm sure most parents would wish their children an education at Harvard, but the vast majority of the college-educated in America receive their education outside of the Ivy League and they are the individuals most responsible for America's economic success.
Operating under legitimate-sounding names like National Scholarship Foundation, College Financial Aid Services of America and Student Assistance Services--all of which have been shut down by the FTC--they guarantee college scholarships and increased financial aid.
Only when bureaucracies and self-serving unions recognize that they are accountable for what they do and that there are consequences for poor performance will pre-college education in America blossom again.
We're going to challenge the private sector to partner with community colleges, for example, to help train the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow, even as we make college more affordable -- so that, by 2020, America once again leads the world in producing college graduates.
Venture for America says it was inspired by Teach for America, which places recent college graduates at schools in low-income communities for two years.
Forbes breaks down its America's Best Colleges list into regions because many college-bound students base their decisions on location, proximity to home and culture.
Venture for America is a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates to work in a start-up or early stage company in a low-cost city.
Principal Terry Pearsall-Hargett, with 22 years in the Army under her belt, brought in veteran teachers from her old school and hired several from Teach for America, a Peace Corps-like nonprofit that recruits college students to work in troubled schools.
According to the Global Education Digest, a report published last year by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 69 out of 100 adults of college age are enrolled in higher-education programs in Europe and North America.
It's the only -- it's the largest building on any college campus in America like that.
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White Sox manager Robin Ventura also played his college ball at Oklahoma State, where was a three-time All-America.
Putting only 10% of America's jobless men through a two-year community-college course, say, would mean doubling expenditure on training.
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Nathan Pusey was the first non-New Englander to be made head of America's oldest college (founded 1636).
When I came into office I said I wanted to once again have America have the highest graduation rates, college graduation rates, of any country in the world -- that we had been slipping.
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Jonathan Laurence, a professor at Boston College, argues that America may be an easier place than Europe to be either a Muslim or an anti-Muslim.
Ms. Mangan-Valle said she moved to New York City after college as part of the Teach for America program that places college graduates in teaching positions in poor neighborhoods.
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In a 2001 paper Andrew Bernard of Dartmouth College and Bradford Jensen, now of Georgetown University, analysed the sources of America's export boom in 1987-92.
They need to graduate college equipped with specialized skills that enable them to help companies compete in the global economy--not just corporate America.
When most new jobs in America require more than a high school diploma, higher education -- whether at a four-year college, at a two-year program -- it can't be a luxury.
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