Only weeks before the 2008 presidential conventions, political veterans, including Representative John B. Anderson, Alderman Edward Burke, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Richard Lugar, Senator George McGovern and Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III, met today to recall the old presidential nominating system and the profound changes in the way America selects its presidential candidates. The discussion, [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday awarded 72 community college partnerships $125 million for successfully competing under the president’s Community-Based Job Training Grants Initiative.
Edison Community College in Piqua was awarded $2.03 million to develop a comprehensive regional training network to deliver advanced manufacturing training to incumbent and dislocated workers in western Ohio.
Key partners include [...]

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The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantánamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they’re fiscally responsible. But each has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next next

The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University announced today that Dr. Michael Merzenich, one of the world’s premier researchers on brain development will be the featured speaker at the semi-annual Allen and Constance Ford Distinguished Lectureship Series on November 4, 2008 in Cleveland. The program “A revolution in neuro-therapeutics: Brain plasticity-based strategies [...]

Citing the proven benefits of preschool education, an official from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the California Assembly’s Judiciary Committee Chairman urged Los Angeles area business leaders today to support efforts to expand access to Early Childhood Education throughout Los Angeles County.
Rob Grunewald, Associate Economist with the Federal Reserve Bank, and Assemblyman Dave [...]

Grant County young people bound for college are better prepared than many in the state, according to a recently released study.
The Ready for College 2007 study conducted by the state’s Higher Education Department, reported the number of high school graduates attending in-state universities that needed remedial classes before enrolling in college level studies.
The report focused [...]

In a historic move to support the international education of America’s college students, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 1469, the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act.
The legislation, introduced by Reps. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record) (D – Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (news, bio, voting record) (R – Fla.), calls [...]

HARRISBURG – The state’s student loan agency, already the focus of negative publicity for its travel expenses, has a new critic.
The governor.
“It has to have a total housecleaning,” Gov. Rendell said of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. “When the cost of college is more and more challenging to Pennsylvanians and their families, we can’t [...]

Several representatives from NWOSU attended Monday’s City Council meeting to thank the council for its support of the university and present the scholarship billing.
NWOSU President Dr. Janet Cunningham, Northwestern Foundation Executive Director Skeeter Bird, Northwestern Executive Vice President Dr. Steve Lohmann, Vice President for Administration David Pecha and Dean of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management [...]

Edison High School will get its Wallin scholarship money after all, and Edison Principal Larry Lucio has been put on administrative leave during an investigation, district officials said Tuesday.
The Wallin Foundation informed school officials last week that it was severing a relationship with Edison that has given graduates of the school $2 million in scholarships. [...]