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  Parents Face Tough Decisions on Football Concussions
  Topic by Carrie Kirby

  America's passionate love affair with tackle football shows no sign of cooling anytime soon. But with the season again under way—not just at the NFL and college levels, but on high school, middle school, and even elementary school fields across the nation—it's encouraging to see evidence of a...

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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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  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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  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....

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  Why Are There Teacher Cheating Scandals?
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  In July 2011, it was discovered that 178 Atlanta public school teachers and principals were involved in a cheating scandal. The educators were responsible for raising student test scores on state standardized tests. Some educators blame their actions on the pressure of meeting standards set...

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  China's New Prada Bag: The American Diploma
  Topic by Carrie Kirby

  In upwardly mobile China, labels have always mattered, whether the goods behind the label are genuine or not. The latest must-have brand names for wealthy Chinese are not Prada or Louis Vuitton; they are Harvard and Andover. Studying abroad is not a new pursuit in China, but the number...

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  Charter Schools, Online Schools & Public Education
  Topic by Marta Segal Block

  The first public school in the United States was founded by Puritan settlers in 1635. The school still exists today as Boston Latin School. The original goal of public education in the U.S. was to not only train children for careers but to educate them to be good citizens of the developing...

• Failure, The Unrealized Trend in Today's Schools
  Topic by Kirsten N Lemmons
• Academic Ethics: Why Students Cheat
  Topic by Nidhi Singh
• Earthquake Preparedness in California and Japan
  Topic by Harvey K Black
• Indoor Tanning: an Issue of Addiction?
  Topic by Erin Luhmann
• White Birth Rate Will Change America
  Topic by Nora G Hertel
• The Third Party Problem
  Topic by Carrie Kirby