No issue will have a bigger impact on the future performance of our economy than education.
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It might be the size of the stadium, branding or people selling the NFL more than education.
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What about giving money to minors for purposes other than education?
From a practical perspective, a degree in most fields other than education offers more earning potential while still retaining the option of pursuing a teaching career without any detrimental effects.
Indeed, if Mr Bresnahan is right, economists' standard ways of categorising workers according to skill are wrong: there is more (or less) to it than education and training, narrowly defined.
The penalty? 29.5 British Pounds paid to go toward books and supplies for Tanzanian schools, which the U.K. courts felt were harmed through the diversion of funds to bribing rather than education.
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At a news conference, Bradley said he knows of no other issue more discussed and of interest to voters than education, and that he intends to focus heavily on schools between now and March 7.
As if that wasn't a big enough obstacle, no sooner had the ink dried on the law than Education Secretary Arne Duncan rescinded the scholarship offer to children admitted for next year, making the program's shuttering a fait accompli.
In particular, a long-term CD can be a good choice when you want to give a teenager the option of using the money on something other than education, yet you want to discourage them from spending it right away.
The Report has developed a Deprivation and Marginalization in Education (DME) database drawing on a range of household surveys covering 80 countries and providing a more nuanced picture of education poverty (those with less than 4 years of education), extreme education poverty (those with less than 2 years of education) and those in the bottom 20 per cent (with the fewest years of education in a given society).
As highlighted in the Digest, secondary education costs more than primary education mostly because of the need for teachers trained to provide subject-specific instruction.
"In 2010-11 we were spending more on welfare than on education, health and defence combined, " she said.
The Feds now spend more money on interest (which is mostly paid to the wealthy) than on education.
In Tanzania, the government devotes three times more to debt-servicing than to education, on which spending has dropped two-thirds in a decade.
"In this campaign, Al Gore is proposing that we spend more of your money on a military build-up than on education, " Bradley told supporters at the University of Washington.
''We need vocational training much more than higher education.
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Given that these roles are perceived to require no more than cultural education (socialisation), women are often married early while families prefer to invest their meagre resources on the education of boys.
It would require big cultural and economic reforms, such as a significant increase in numbers of teenagers choosing apprenticeships rather than higher education, and a return onshore of the kind of component makers that have fled to Asia.
Massive open online courses have the potential to alter how we teach and learn as a society, but unlike other methods that are steeped in centuries of trial and error, the MOOC concept remains experimental and unproven -- often criticized as better suited for edification than rigorous education.
Massive open online courses have the potential to alter how we teach and learn as a society, but unlike other methods that are steeped in centuries of trial and error, the MMOC concept remains experimental and unproven -- often criticized as better suited for edification than rigorous education.
And what you'll find in the Midwest, the Hmong population - there's a lot of ginseng farming, not that push for educational attainment and just, in general, those groups still don't overshadow the fact that even East Asian descent Asian-Americans have higher rates of poverty and still higher rates of not having a high school education or less than a high school education, as well.
The task force will continue working to expand access to quality education, because as Vice President Biden said today: there is no better ticket to the middle class than a college education.
On the playing field of life, there is nothing more important than a quality education.
The United States spends more money on public education than any other country in the world.
In 2008 we spent about 128 billion more on education than we did on defense.
Many of the poorest countries spend significantly more on arms than on basic education.
Gates encouraged other foundations to donate more of their endowments to education than the government mandated 5%.
Some 35% in China and a stunning 70% in India have no more than a primary education.
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In a fifth of countries analysed, poor, urban young people have less education than in rural areas.
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