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Where to enter it: If there are any differences between what was reported on the 1098-T and your records, use the amount actually paid in the Tuition and Fees box on the Enter your Education Expenses screen in the Higher Education Expenses topic. Don't duplicate amounts entered in box 1.

State board to Freehold officials: Drop new titles

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:15:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newsday.com

TRENTON, N.J. - The state Commission on Higher Education is telling three Freehold Regional school administrators to stop using doctoral titles obtained from a so-called "diploma mill."

It was recently revealed that officials in Freehold, including superintendent H. James Wasser, had degrees from Breyer State University, a unaccredited university.

US household incomes fail to grow

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:21:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Economic Policy Institute and US Census seem to have different viewpoints on the U.S. Economy...

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

US households have failed to benefit from the strong economic growth in the last six years of expansion.

Despite an economy that expanded by 18% since 2000, real income for the median family fell by 1.1% from 2000 to 2006.

But people at the top of the income distribution, the top 1%, tripled their income between 1989 and 2006, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

"While most Americans were struggling, the good times were rolling for the top 10%," said EPI president Lawrence Michel.

With the US economy now slowing, household income is likely to fall further behind, the group predicts, with African-American and Hispanic households especially hard-hit.

The big disparities in income, coupled with the rising cost of higher education, have hurt the chances of poorer Americans improving their job and income prospects by completing a college education.

Palin attended five colleges in six years

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:51:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Palin has a Bachelor's in Journalism.

So, an Associate's in nursing should qualify me to be the next Surgeon General in McSame's administration, right? Or at least Sec'y of Health and Human Services...

Clip Source: www.ktva.com

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended five colleges in six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987.

Federal privacy laws prohibit the schools from disclosing her grades, and none of the schools contacted by The Associated Press could say why she transferred. There was no indication any of them were contacted as part of the background investigation of Palin by presidential candidate John McCain's campaign.

From North Idaho College, Palin transferred 70 miles south to the University of Idaho, the state's flagship institution. She majored in journalism with an emphasis in broadcast news. She attended Idaho, whose mascot is the Vandals, from fall 1984 to spring 1985.

The McCain campaign did not have an immediate comment on Palin's higher education record.

Tags: sarah palin, education, mccain, election

Are you getting closer to retirement?

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:48:25 GMT

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Clip Source: babyboomer.blognetworkmarketing.com

The boomer’s education entered a new era from grade school through high school. The focus changed from the golden rule basics of the three R’s, to preparing for the onslaught of new technologies recently discovered and those still on the drawing board. Higher Education was being transformed to accept more of the masses into the new technologies. Community and Open college campuses were established which allowed anyone to pursue a professional career.

The television entered into the lives of boomers and allowed our comic book characters to come to life. Visualization went to a new level, the many communities of the earth became accessible in more real time.

Tags: working from home business, mlm, network marketing training

UNESCO Open Educational Resources Wiki

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:36:47 GMT

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Clip Source: oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org

The UNESCO Community of Interest on Open Educational Resources was formed in 2005 at the end of a formal Internet discussion forum on Open Educational Resources: open content for higher education. This forum was the third of a series organised by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) to examine key issues related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies in higher education. The forum series and subsequent work on OER took place in the context of IIEP's "observation" function to explore new trends in education.

Clip Source: oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org

This site was originally created by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) as a place where members of the UNESCO OER Community can work together on questions, issues and documents. Over time we can build this site together.

Tags: open-educational-resources wiki

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:34:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.merlot.org

Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.

Clip Source: taste.merlot.org

MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

Tags: learning-objects educational resources peer-review

Teachers' Domain: Digital Media For the Classroom and Professional Development

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:00:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.teachersdomain.org

Teachers’ Domain offers standards-based professional development courses in Science. more...

Broaden your content knowledge and explore new strategies using digital media in the classroom. Learn more about the courses offered by clicking on Professional Development Courses.

College faculty and students, do you know about Teachers' Domain College Edition? more...

Teachers' Domain now offers a set of science and engineering resources organized for use in higher education. You can switch over to Teacher’s Domain College Edition simply by clicking on the "change editions" link at the bottom of the page.

Tags: learning-objects multimedia

Senator Barack Obama's Qualifications for the Office of the President of the United States

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:25:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Let’s also not diminish another strong point of Barack Obama’s qualifications for President; he is a scholar of U. S. Constitutional law. On January 20, 2009 the person we elect will solemnly swear to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”. With respect to the two major canidates for President, it could be said that Barack Obama’s resume shows him to be intellectually more qualified to execute that oath.

Clip Source: www.gainesville.com

Let’s give credit where credit has been earned. Let’s list other significant experience and accomplishments with an abbreviated resume.

Columbia University

B.A. Political Science

Major International Relations Thesis topic: Soviet nuclear disarmament

Harvard Law School

J.D. magna cum laude 1988-1991

Elected President, Harvard Law Review

1983-1988 Director of the Developing Communities Project

1993-2004 Senior Lecturer in Constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School

Illinois Senator 1996-2004

Chairman, Health and Human Services Committee

United States Senator 2004-present

Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs

Member, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Member, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Member, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

With respect to John McCain’s higher education, he finished near the bottom of his class at the US Naval Academy in 1958.

Movement Conservatism: The G.O.P. - Selling Social Policy as a Commodity

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:51:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: indifference to learning from experience and adjusting accordingly is a central characteristic of movement conservatism.
Examples: Resistance to forming a 9/11 commission (Bush administration)
Resistance to learning what went wrong during Hurricane Katrina ( John McCain);
The term Flip-Flopping, (one can never form a new opinion or idea based upon new experience or information;

Clip Source: www.sourcewatch.org

Movement Conservatism is a self-serving and socially malevolent cabal of mega-corporations, right-wing think tanks in Washington, their archconservative foundation benefactors, and an intricate nationwide network of linkages in the communications media, religion, higher education, and law. It has been called the "conservative labyrinth," and common to all its elements is a theology of "free markets," an ideology coming to full bloom

the G.O.P. seeks to impose it at every turn

In the abstract, and historically, "free markets" are hugely appealing.

Free markets" today are a fantasy

contemporary markets are wholly dominated by corporate, not proprietary enterprise, and characterized by its features

administered prices, branded goods and services

the subjugation, by ubiquitous advertising, of consumer sovereignty

Corporate domination of "free markets" has destroyed the ability of markets to make socially optimum allocations

none of this seems to penetrate the minds of Movement Conservatives

Bahrain will take action against holders of fake degrees

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:07:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.zawya.com

Manama: Bahrain's Civil Service Bureau, the organisation in charge of managing the staff and payroll for all ministries, has pledged to take disciplinary measures against employees guilty of presenting fake diplomas for recruitment or promotion purposes.

Eight Bahrainis were named in a list of people who had allegedly bought fake university degrees from the US. The list was released following the arrest of the ring leaders who operated out of Washington State.

The names of several people in Gulf Cooperation Council countries were among the 9,612 on the list who had allegedly purchased degrees and diplomas from the US diploma mill.

The Saudi higher education authorities last week said they would investigate 68 names of people who might have paid for "proof" they graduated from college or obtained a PhD.

First Generation College Students

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:39:58 GMT

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Clip Source: minnesota.publicradio.org

They're the first to go to college

About one fourth of the state's undergraduates are the first in their families to go to college, according to a 2004 survey of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.

All around him, he felt the pressure to put more emphasis on finding a job than focusing on school.

To stay in school, Meza surrounded himself with a group of supportive guidance counselors and teachers. He also joined Admission Possible, a college readiness program for low-income juniors and seniors.

"The biggest barrier to college education for first-generation students is sort of feeling of being a fraud," Olson said. "A lot of times, first generation college students feel like, 'I've made it this far, I'm kind of fooling people. They're going to find me out any day now, that I don't really belong here.' And they get those messages of not belonging in so many different, subtle ways."

Tags: radio, college, first-generation

University Admission Counseling

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:32:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dilip Oak Academy, an institute for GRE/GMAT coaching and preparation, GRE/GMAT training, TOEFL/IELTS Coaching, Admissions to American Universities, & Visa counseling center in Pune, India.

Clip Source: www.dilipoakacademy.com

Welcome to the web site of India's largest training and counselling institute for higher education in America. If you are looking for GRE^®coaching, GMAT^™coaching, TOEFL^®coaching, IELTS ^® coaching or assistance with applications to international universities for your graduate or post-graduate degree, you have arrived at the right place. Think of Dilip Oak's Academy as your one-stop-shop for higher education in America. If there is anything you need by way of training, information, contacts, materials or procedures, we have it - or will get it for you.

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Tags: gre coaching and training, gmat coaching and training, ielts classes, toefl coaching, admissions to american universities

New Jersey Code 18A:3-15.1. Deceptive diploma practices

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:40:42 GMT

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Clip Source: law.justia.com

18A:3-15.1. Deceptive diploma practices

A person shall not with the intent to deceive buy, sell, make or alter, give, issue, obtain or attempt to obtain any diploma or other document purporting to confer any academic degree, or which certifies the completion in whole or in part of any course of study in any institution of higher education.

18A:3-15.2. Use of fraudulent degree

A person or other legal entity shall not use, or attempt to use, in connection with any business, trade, profession or occupation any academic degree or certification of degree or degree credit, including but not limited to a transcript of course work, which has been fraudulently issued, obtained, forged or altered. A person shall not, with intent to deceive, falsely represent himself as having received any such degree or credentiaL.

Clipmarks | Higher-education Clips

Education Reference Desk

Education TurboTax tip

State board to Freehold officials: Drop new titles

US household incomes fail to grow

Palin attended five colleges in six years

Are you getting closer to retirement?

UNESCO Open Educational Resources Wiki

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)

Teachers' Domain: Digital Media For the Classroom and Professional Development

Senator Barack Obama's Qualifications for the Office of the President of the United States

Movement Conservatism: The G.O.P. - Selling Social Policy as a Commodity

Bahrain will take action against holders of fake degrees

First Generation College Students

They're the first to go to college

University Admission Counseling

Quality coaching for the GRE®, GMAT™, TOEFL® and IELTS®

New Jersey Code 18A:3-15.1. Deceptive diploma practices

Quality coaching for the GRE^®, GMAT™, TOEFL^® and IELTS^®