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The Minerva Project, after a highly successful 2012 round of funding, has unveiled it profit model, a unique hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit divisions. Will this help Bob Kerrey’s project get off the ground?
After months of negotiations, Idaho public schools have agreed to use online classes created by Khan Academy for its 2013 school year. Following…
More than 1.6 million high school students in the 2012 graduating class prepared for college by taking the SAT, according to the College Board , which…
RapidTech, a nonprofit organization on the campus of the University of California at Irvine, may be the manufacturing industry’s secret weapon. By…
Home prices are rising, which is good news for the economy in general and for homeowners and potential home buyers in particular. Over the past year,…
Microfinance is widely lauded as a sustainable long-term solution to worldwide poverty. It gives investors incentives to provide financial services to…
A recent study by the U.S. Department of the Treasury ofers good news to those wondering if earning a degree is worth the cost. The study found not…
Women may be closing the gender gap in some professions, but business is not one of them.
While obtaining an MBA is normally seen as a surefire way to gain financial and career success, recent statistics show that women with this high-powered degree lag behind their male counterparts in terms of salary. Compared to a decade ago, the MBA gender wage gap has actually widened.
Student loan debt is almost impossible to escape, as many borrowers know all too well. In response to the current problem of borrowers buried under heavy payments and high interest rates, Congressman Tom Petri (R-Wisconsin) recently introduced the Earnings Contingent Education Loans (ExCEL) Act of 2012.
Petri contends that his bill protects borrowers against payments they cannot afford while also ensuring that taxpayers don’t have to subsidize defaulted loans or the cost of loan collection.
Retail sales in the United States grew by an unimpressive 0.7% this holiday season, between Oct. 28 and Christmas Day, according to Bloomberg News. While holiday sales did show some growth, it was less than half the growth seen last holiday season, when sales grew by 2%, and much lower than the growth predicted by the National Retail Federation. It represents the worst growth since the 2008 recession, a year when there was a decline of 5.5%.
