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10-15-09
Nearly 400 New York City business and civic leaders kicked off the 2009-10 PENCIL Partnership Program today by participating in a New York tradition-PENCIL's Principal For A Day event.
"For the past fifteen years, PENCIL has been proudly leadin...
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10-14-09
The College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley is making major new commitments to advance research and education in sustainable green chemistry, thanks to the financial support of The Dow Chemical Company Foundation and ongoing collaboration with The Dow ...
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10-13-09
Sushi has joined the list of favorite menu items at six elementary schools in New Jersey's Hillsborough Township Public Schools. Sodexo, the official student nutrition provider for the district, prepared and served California rolls to 400 adventurous students at lunch in lat...
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09-29-09
Sony Pictures Entertainment has signed on to be a corporate sponsor of student interns from Verbum Dei High School, the renowned college preparatory school in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
"The Verbum Dei and Sony Pictures partners...
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09-29-09
Public voting for the winning entries in Walden University's Scholars of Change video contest begins today. Walden students and graduates created and submitted videos on how a Walden University degree will change their lives and empower them to personally effect positive soc...
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09-24-09
, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Brazilian educator Beatriz Cardoso launches her commitment "All Kids can Learn" during the Fifth Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting at the New York Sheraton. Cardoso is the president of CEDAC, an NGO which has working for improving the qualit...
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09-16-09
The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education (Aspen CBE) announced today the winners of the 2009 Faculty Pioneer Awards. Dubbed the "Oscars of the business school world" by the The Financial Times, this annual recognition celebrates business school instructors who have...
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09-10-09
Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC), the largest distributor of healthcare products and services to office-based practitioners, helped prepare more than 2,000 underserved children in 18 North American cities for a great new school year by presenting them with specially selecte...
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09-01-09
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2010 MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Awards, which recognize exemplary institutions from across the country that are making a significant difference in their communities. To apply, community colleges can submit self-...
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08-26-09
The Entergy Charitable Foundation today announced a gift of $355,000 to Teach For America, the national corps of top recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational o...