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Continuing Education and a High School Diploma

Continuing Education and a High School Diploma It happens all the time. A young person drops out of high school, and at first, doesn’t regret the decision. But as the years go by and more and more people progress into better paying jobs, this person feels left behind. Continuing education lets you make up for lost time. Consider these facts. People who do not have a high school diploma are more likely to be unemployed. That’s not surprising since many jobs these days require that you’ve graduated high school. By exploring continuing education options and receiving your diploma or passing...

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Use Your Skills to Help Others… Teach Continuing Education

Use Your Skills to Help Others… Teach Continuing Education Some people say you are a smart-alek. Other people swear by your knowledge and continually ask you to share your knowledge. You like teaching and helping others, so why not let them in on what you know? You never really did have an interest in becoming a teacher, but as you get older and older and your knowledge in your chosen field continues to grow, you are starting to feel the need to teach others about what you know and how they can become experts in the field like you are....

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Financial Education Can Pay Dividends for Youth

Financial Education Can Pay Dividends for Youth According to statistics from the National Council on Economic Education, only seven states require high school students to take a personal finance course while eight others require courses with personal finance content. This was from a 2004 survey that also showed only nine states test personal finance knowledge. These numbers are beginning to change as the state of Missouri joins the fray and will require one-half unit of credit in personal finance instruction for graduation in 2010. A 2004 national survey by the Jump$ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy measured 12th graders’...

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Study In Germany – The Best Education Bargain In The World

Study In Germany – The Best Education Bargain In The World More and more college-bound students from the U.S. and around the world are traveling to Germany to study, some for a semester or a year, but others to pursue a two- or four-year degree at one of the country’s many prestigious universities. The reason? Part of it is pure quality – the university system created in Germany after World War II has a well-earned reputation for excellence – but another, more pragmatic reason is cost. Students who in the United States would be facing over ,000 in student loans...

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Taking Control of Moral Education

Taking Control of Moral Education People remove their children from public school and move to private schools for a lot of reasons. For one thing, the contract you have with a private school is in every way different than your relationship with public school. Because you pick your private school, the schools in your area are in competition for your “business”. That means they work for you and they are responsible to live up to their promises to you when you pay them to give your child an education. This phase of the process, when you are interviewing various private...

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Driver Education Information for Teens

Driver Education Information for Teens Virtually every teenager will do it; take a drivers education course to obtain their learners permit and eventually an unrestricted drivers license. Most states have requirements that must be met for a teen to get their learners permit. What is a learners permit? A learners permit is a special permit issued by a State Department of Motor Vehicles (often referred to as DMV, but some states have varying titles) office for teenagers to begin “behind the wheel” drivers education training. For many states, the average age you can apply for a learners permit is 15....

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Paul McCartney Joins Music Education Cause

Paul McCartney Joins Music Education Cause Even though experts have shown that music education improves performance in and out of the classroom, increases SAT scores and keeps kids in school, budget cuts have been breaking up marching bands and silencing school choruses across the country. To combat this trend, Fidelity Investments joined music icon Paul McCartney to launch a new public charity, the Music Lives Foundation, aimed at increasing funding for music education programs in schools. “As a boy growing up in Liverpool, I was surrounded by music,” said McCartney. “That’s just the way it was. The problem is that...

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Why Online Education Is More Important Than Food Or Drink

Why Online Education Is More Important Than Food Or Drink Focusing on the importance of online education is why I ask you to step back in time to when your children were babies. Remember when you taught them to talk/walk. Remember hearing babys first word like dada/mama one of the most pleasurable experiences in your life. Remember that special moment when baby took his/her first steps where you waited in anticipation to welcome them with open arms of which baby fell into after the third step. Remember the time when your back was turned for a split second and baby...

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Get A College Education At An Online University

Get A College Education At An Online University Are you a working professional who would like to pursue a degree but don’t have enough time to devote to attending classes? Are you a person who would like to pursue higher education but you do not have the funds required for the courses? Then an online degree from a recognized university is the right choice for you. There are many universities all around the world who offer online degrees to individuals in various fields such as management, architectural courses, hospitality, health, medicine, transcription etc. These colleges provide the courses to students...

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Is Continuing Education Worth the Money?

Is Continuing Education Worth the Money? So you have decided that it would probably be a good choice to pursue some sort of continuing education. You have not decided if you are going to take just a few courses or pursue an all-out degree soon. The one thing you do know for sure is that it will cost you money in your already tight budget. Sure, you understand that continuing education is important for everyone, however, you still are not sure if it is worth the extra money you put out to pay for it. Well, it is. No matter...

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