Teasley said he last ran into Booker at an education conference a few years ago, when the mayor was trying to raise funds from the educational charities of Bill and Melinda Gates, Eli Broad and the Walton family of Wal-Mart fame.

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Whether they are active duty, Guard or Reserve, they are entitled, as well, to expect the best pay and benefits our country can afford, including a modern GI Bill with educational assistance that will help us recruit and keep our nation's finest in uniform.

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According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 7.8 million of 16 million troops who served in WWII received educational or vocational training from the GI Bill.

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Because I think it will be a good educational process for people to weigh the arguments about the relative merits of the bill instead of listening to millions of dollars' worth of insurance industry ads that have been put out there or whatever pundit on the left or the right is saying about these different issues.

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This week the House and Senate compromised on a mushy education-reform bill that drops vouchers, increases spending and boosts the federal role in educational testing.

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Federal representative of Brazil Paulo Teixeira spoke about the private OER Bill, currently before the Brazil Chamber of Deputies, which calls for government-funded educational resources to be made available as OERs.

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In other evidence to the committee, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) criticised the "complexity" of the education changes proposed in the bill by the Scottish government.

BBC: students doing exams

Bill Clinton went to Oxford University and surrounded himself with Rhodes scholars who liked to discuss the German educational model.

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