AP – U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged Congress on Friday to act soon to increase education funding because cash-strapped states can’t wait until the fall to determine if they must lay off thousands of teachers.
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Duncan: Congress needs to act now on school money
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The Upshot – What’s the best advice Warren Buffett has ever received?  You might be surprised: It has nothing to do with money. Watch here: In an exclusive interview with Yahoo! News and the Huffington Post, he credited his father with teaching him …
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Buffett recounts the best advice he’s ever received
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The Christian Science Monitor – The economy may be on the mend, but signs of decline still dominate in America’s public schools as they plan their budgets for next year: Thousands of teachers once again brace for pink-slip season; more students will sit elbow-to-elbow in crowded rooms; computers that break down will sit unused; and kids will bring home longer lists of supplies – from crayons to sanitary wipes – that parents are supposed to buy for their classrooms.
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School budget cuts across the US projected for next academic year
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BusinessWeek – Tinashe Chinyanga describes his childhood in Zimbabwe as fairly standard, working in the fields every morning before walking to school in a nearby village. But the rest of his education has been a world away from his village friends: boarding school, then a medical degree, and now the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB). Education was his ticket out of an early grave, says 28-year-old Chinyanga. “Most of my peers have HIV, if they’re not already dead.” Chinyanga owes his more fortunate path in part to his father, who was a teacher and pushed him to succeed. …
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Cape Town B-School Embraces Social Entrepreneurship
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AP – The Canadian mortgage insurance business of American International Group Inc. will be sold to a private investor group headed by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the groups said Tuesday.
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AIG sells Canadian mortgage insurance unit
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From an all-girls school to an air force base, Pakistan is being devastated by vast instances of suicide bombings. The attacks are widely seen as militant reprisals towards the Pakistani army, which is currently conducting a major offensive against militants from the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the tribal area of South Waziristan. Pakistani civilian Mina Hussain, a former school teacher for an all-girls school that was recently targeted, and Shuja Nawaz, of the South Asia Center for Atlantic Council of the United States, discuss turmoil in the region. Nawaz is currently attending a NATO seminar on Pakistan.
The Obama administration has begun to distinguish between “good” and “bad” Taliban as military commanders in Afghanistan consider negotiating with Taliban who agree to peace. Vahid Brown, who teaches at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, talks with Renee Montagne about the differences between the two.
The Louisiana Federation of Teachers charges that teachers from the Philippines were brought over to fill a teacher shortage, then held in servitude by the recruiting company. The firm is accused of taking chunks of the teachers’ wages and threatening to deport them if they complained.
Ira Flatow and guests talk about some creative ways to make science class more fun for students and teachers, including blogging about original research, using social networks with classmates, making online video presentations and doing hands-on experiments with cockroaches.
The Haqqani Network is a terrorist group that is not as well known as the Taliban or al Qaida. From its base in Pakistan, the group has mounted a series of sophisticated attacks in Afghanistan. Vahid Brown, a terrorism expert and teacher at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, talks with Renee Montagne about the roots and reach of the Haqqani Network.
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