"I think we have a really good opportunity in the States right now, " says Sara Moleski-Rice, vice president for grants and government relations for Learning Care Group, the umbrella for ABC's U.S. operations.

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Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship: The center offers Middlebury students a wide range of learning opportunities, including an annual symposium featuring the brightest stars of social entrepreneurship, summer grants, multi-year fellowships, and the MLab, a weekly discussion for students learning about the challenges of social change leadership.

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In only two years, the 12 states with Race to the Top grants continue to show improvements in teaching and learning in their schools.

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The report also said that many grants schemes are too complex, with both funders and recipients rarely learning lessons from problems which have arisen with past schemes.

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Today we can say something we could not say six years ago: with more affordable student loans, more Pell grants and work-study jobs, education IRAs, a lifetime learning tax credit for junior and senior year of college, and the new HOPE scholarship tax cut that more than 5 million Americans will receive this year, we have opened the doors of college to all.

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