October 22nd, 2011
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Is your mailbox full of unread messages from the credit card companies? If you’re going through a credit crunch and you can’t make ends meet with the meager amount of money that you earn, you may immediately rush to a debt counseling agency. Debt counseling is a process that enables a debtor to be actually aware of the ways in which he can avoid taking on more debt and worsen his already distressed financial state. The certified debt counselors are there to motivate you and redirect you on the right financial track. If you’re totally oblivious of the services that you may expect from a credit counseling agency, you can check them out.
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October 3rd, 2011
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Cash advances or short term payday loans can become cash trouble instead of cash relief if youkeep defaulting on them regularly. Although these are meant to provide you instant cash within aspan of 24 hours of application of the loan, you should take out a payday loan with great caution.A payday loan is a short term loan that is meant to be paid back within 15 days to 30 days oftaking it out, or the date that corresponds to your next day. If you don’t have the resources topay the payday loan back at your next payday and roll the balance over to the next month thenyou start getting charged an interest rate on the payday loan. Since this [...] Continue Reading…
July 12th, 2011
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Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor
Indianapolis, IN, United States (AHN) – Indiana will stop requiring students to learn how to write cursive beginning this fall under a multi-state initiative to raise standards in schools and produce competitive graduates for college. Under the standards, called Common Core, kindergarten students will begin learning to write using digital tools. By fifth grade, students should “demonstrate sufficient keyboarding skills” and be able to type at least two pages of text in one sitting. The new Common Core curriculum will allow cursive to be taught as an elective. The transition begins with kindergarten this schoolyear and first grade teachers in the next until all K-12 teachers begin using the standards in 2014. [...] Continue Reading…
June 29th, 2011
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The Media Line Staff
Jerusalem, Israel David E. Miller – Facebook was the medium for spreading the word of rebellion in the Arab Spring, but it was school textbooks – the required reading from early childhood through the teen years that informs children of who they are and where they come from – that may have been the source of alienation that drove young people into the street. That’s what some scholars meeting in Jerusalem said at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem on Wednesday, as they reviewed the lessons students pick up from reading history, literature, civics and other subjects. “Arab school textbooks are unable to address inner diversities within societies,” [...] Continue Reading…
June 22nd, 2011
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Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent
Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – A Florida International University case that tests the limits of academic freedom for students who travel abroad was taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday. At issue is a 2006 Florida law that forbids public university faculty from using taxpayer money to travel to countries listed as “state sponsors of terrorism.” Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Sudan and Syria all are on Florida’s list. Faculty members from Florida International University planned to lead a group of students studying Latin American history and culture to Cuba until state officials intervened to stop them. The Supreme Court met in private conference Thursday to determine whether [...] Continue Reading…
June 17th, 2011
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The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest, has instituted a ban of chocolate and strawberry milk. The district is just one of a growing number of school districts nationwide banning the longtime cafeteria beverage.
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June 11th, 2011
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The social welfare department has ended the educational assistance to 70 poor youths given scholarships by the previous administration forcing former president and now congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to pay the tuition of one of the students on Wednesday.
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June 11th, 2011
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The social welfare department has ended the educational assistance to 70 poor youths given scholarships by the previous administration forcing former president and now congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to pay the tuition of one of the students on Wednesday.
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June 8th, 2011
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(LoanSafe.org) – With the housing market continuing to not recover, another event brought by the non-profit HELP is coming to … Continue reading ?
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June 8th, 2011
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The University of Illinois hopes to raise $100 million through private donations for scholarships over the next three years to help make up for increasing tuition and shortfalls in state support for students who need help paying for college.
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