Ten outstanding students pursuing careers in the beef industry have each been awarded a $1,500 scholarship provided by the CME Group and the National Cattlemen’s Foundation. The CME Group has sponsored this scholarship program for 18 years.
Each scholarship winner wrote a 750-word essay that identified key issues confronting the beef industry, and suggested [...]

The federal Education Department has agreed to review requests from 20 states to alter significantly the way they measure student progress under the No Child Left Behind Act. The move comes as the number of schools across the country deemed substandard under that law grows by the thousands.
The requests, which Education Secretary Margaret Spellings invited [...]

Iowa Mediacom Communications is offering 50-thousand dollars in scholarships for high school seniors planning to continue their education.
The scholarships, worth a thousand dollars each, are available to students who live in the five states where Mediacom does business: Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Since the program began in 2002, 126 Iowa students have received [...]