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  Single-Sex Dorms: Gender Separation and Education
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  The President of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. recently wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal to explain his decision to return all of the school's student housing to same-sex dorms. He states that more than 90 percent of college residence halls are now co-ed...

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  Academic Ethics: Why Students Cheat
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  Students today face new pressures that didn't previously exist. High schools and colleges are filled with students striving to attain the best grades while balancing extracurricular activities and maintaining a social life. For some high school students, the need to impress colleges has...

• Inventing Undergraduate Learning Modules for the 21st Century Multiversity
  Article by John H Scanzoni

  A proposal for higher education in the 21st century multiversity.

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  College: Worthwhile or a Waste?
  Topic by Carrie Kirby

  We live in a time where we practically expect bedrock institutions to turn out to be constructed of popsicle sticks and lies. Emperors are constantly being revealed by their new clothes. The "new economy" was built up and crumbled in just a few years at the dawn of this century, and banking...

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  Internships: The Key to Success
  Article by J Maxwell

  Hoping to increase your chances of employment after graduation? Internships hold the key.

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  Rise of For-Profit Vocational Schools
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  By the time I graduated from high school, I had signed up for another four years of school – because getting a bachelor’s degree was the next step. I knew plenty of people who were setting themselves up for years of loan payments and somehow, this sense of solidarity helped assuage my...

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  GED Popularity Grows Despite Job Challenges and Impending Changes
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  In 2002 participation in the General Education Development exam (GED) dropped 43.6 percent . That was a substantial decrease for a test that attracted 1,016,000 takers in 2001. The drop reflected tougher standards and new, open-response questions that aligned with an increase in high school...

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  How Effective is Unschooling?
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  In a world where gaining a public education is deemed important, a small percentage of people are not participating in public school systems, or home schooling. Unschooling is a different approach to learning without tests or grades. In other words, without a set curriculum, unschooling...

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  The Ongoing Debate of American Education
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  With the upcoming 2012 Presidential Election drawing closer, candidates are sure to address the U.S. education system. As students in the United States continue to lag behind countries such as India and China in math and science, the issue of American education remains an unsolved problem....

• Why Are There Teacher Cheating Scandals?
  Topic by Enelda Butler
• China's New Prada Bag: The American Diploma
  Topic by Carrie Kirby
• Charter Schools, Online Schools & Public Education
  Topic by Marta Segal Block
• Failure, The Unrealized Trend in Today's Schools
  Topic by Kirsten N Lemmons
• The Rise of Tick-Borne Illnesses and Misdiagnosed Cases
  Topic by Erin Luhmann
• Netherlands Cracks Down on Cannabis Coffeeshops
  Topic by Ed Murrieta