Eighty per cent of American students in higher education attend a public university - that is a university that is sponsored and financed, at least in part, by the state.
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Bard College offers a program that allows eligible students to pay tuition at a rate comparable to a public university in their home states.
Psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek of Temple University recently had students observe 30 parents and their children in public places.
In the latest study, the researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health asked 189 young men who were students at a university in New York to record how many hours they had been spending doing physical activity and watching TV in a typical week.
As you say, Ontario allows private universities but many students there have difficulty paying for public university tuition, which has increased by 60% in the past five years.
I've spent the last 20 years teaching journalism and writing classes at a selective public university, and the majority of my (bright) students put me in mind of Jack Nicholson's line to Tom Cruise in "A Few Good Men": "You can't handle the truth!"
As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, both Princeton and Harvard University researchers have concluded that students in the Milwaukee choice program have made achievement gains over their public school counterparts.
Facebook originated at Harvard University and was limited at first to students at approved colleges before opening itself to the public in September 2006.
At the top end, Stanford, which is a private university, and Berkeley, which is not, continue to produce fine students, but enrolment in public universities and colleges has been declining in the past few years.
Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high-school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.
Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.
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