This adds to anxiety among industry professionals and policy leaders that the U.S. could fall behind other countries in innovation if it doesn't foster education in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
But Ms. Black needed, and was ultimately granted, a waiver from the state Education Department, because she didn't have the education credentials or experience in schools required by state law.
And to make matters worse, unemployment might mean he can't afford higher education, and he likely won't qualify for federal help simply because he may have made a decent salary a year ago, before he was laid off.
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"We can't make higher education a luxury, " he said during a rally in North Carolina Tuesday.
"Too many Americans just aren't getting the education that they need, " the commission said in its report.
Or, how can I help to teach children who don't have an education?
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If you don't keep your education level up, you will be left out.
These steps won't transform our education system overnight -- not every school is going to be a Graham immediately.
As with a 529 plan, Coverdell funds that aren't used for education are subject to taxes on gains and a 10% penalty.
Hundreds of millions more who do attend--including many in the U.S.--don't receive an education that prepares them adequately for life beyond school.
"If we use the criminal justice system for everything then it isn't actually an education, it gives people a criminal record, " he said.
And meanwhile, families continued to struggle with health care costs, too many of our kids couldn't get the education they needed, the nation remained trapped by our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.
An incorrect diagnosis usually occurs in the offices of primary-care doctors, many of whom haven't received adequate education in medical school about rising rates of Type 1 in adults and how to diagnose it.
So the community fought back: a disciple of a local Shinto priest was called in to train a crack team of wrestling coaches, and Kosaka organized a sumo club that wouldn't contravene the Education Ministry rulebook.
So as frustrating as it may be for the college grad or the MBA, the fact of the matter is you are still going to be much better off than if you didn't have that education short term as well as long term.
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But there are plenty of drawbacks: You can't make an Education IRAand a state plan contribution for the same child in the same year. (Note to in-laws: coordinate contributions.) A student who pulls tax-free money from these IRAs can't use the Hope or Lifetime Learning Credit the same year.
Ms. SAMINA AHMED (Director, International Crisis Group): To assume that money saved from the national budget, if it wasn't going to be spent on arms, was going to be spent on education isn't necessarily correct.
"You can't say that because they are hearing abstinence education, they don't know anything about what they call 'safer sex, ' " Donovan says.
"Demand for that type of business education won't come to a halt, " says Bertrand Moingeon, deputy dean of executive education at HEC business school in Paris.
The group doesn't offer continuing-education credits, the carrot used at many conferences and webcasts.
This is a troubling fact, and this global disparity isn't limited to higher education.
All of this will go for naught if people don't have a good education.
If individuals don't have the right education in place, Heller says, they're apt to fall back on their bad ways.
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How we leverage scarce dollars and fund what's working and stop funding what doesn't work, in education we're not good at that.
But cheap housing and social grants haven't sated demand for education and work opportunities that could offer a pathway to more self-determined advances.
What we should be aiming for is a culture where you don't need alcohol-education programmes, any more than we now need coffee or tea education programmes.
Because the costs associated with most courses are borne by the participant's companies, most business schools don't believe the executive education market is particularly price sensitive.
In the mid-2000s, the IRS revoked or terminated the tax-exempt status of more than a dozen credit-counseling firms after finding they operated as businesses that weren't providing counseling or education.
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