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Making smart choices about student loans The Financial Aid Comparison Shopper
Category: 'Y' Written by Courier Newsroom
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched the next phase of its “Know Before You Owe” student loan project by releasing a beta version of the Financial Aid Comparison Shopper, an interactive, online tool designed to help families plan for the costs of post-secondary education.
“Student loan debt has crossed the $1 trillion mark and tuition continues to climb,” said CFPB Director Richard Cordray. “Now more than ever, students and their families need to know before they owe. Our Financial Aid Comparison Shopper helps students make apples to apples comparisons of their offers and pick the one that works best for their financial future.”
Cordray unveiled the tool at an event in South Dakota with Sen. Tim Johnson, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
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Blueprint to transform Career and Technical education
Category: 'Y' Written by Courier Newsroom
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released the Obama Administration’s blueprint for transforming Career and Technical Education, by reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006. Secretary Duncan discussed how the Administration’s plan will ensure the education system provides high-quality job-training opportunities that reduce skill shortages, spur business growth, encourage new investment and hires, and spark innovation and economic growth.
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Young engineers work to inspire students
Category: 'Y' Written by Christian Morrow - Courier Staff Writer
In Allegheny County, the growth of medical and high-tech manufacturing firms, hospitals, universities and shale oil mining companies has resulted in a need for trained engineers
Yet here and across the country, students continue to lag behind their international counterparts in primary science and math education, leaving many—particularly African-Americans—unprepared to take advantage of the high-paying, career positions available in today’s job market.
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| PREPARING FOR SUCCESS—Ninth graders at Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy raise their hands to tell members of the National Society of Black Engineers they know what they want to do. (Photos by J.L. Martello)
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Obama launches ‘Together for Tomorrow’ school improvement challenge
Category: 'Y' Written by Courier Newsroom
“Together for Tomorrow,” the joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and the Corporation for National and Community Service to spur community engagement in turning around our nation’s lowest performing schools, launched its School Improvement Challenge for the 2012-13 school year on http://TFT.challenge.gov.
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Urban League Charter focuses on education, self pride
Category: 'Y' Written by Ashley N. Johnson
The decorated, wooden sign displayed outside of the principal’s office with the inscription of three words: Dream, Believe and Achieve, are just a few of the words that sum up the principles the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Charter School shares with its students on a daily basis. While the school, located in East Liberty, may be small, the love and compassion for its students and the sense of pride in one’s culture that fills the hallways is far greater than the largest building that anyone could build.
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| I CAN SPELL IT—One of the Urban League Charter School’s kindergarten classes practices the words they have learned how to spell.(Photos by J.L. Martello)
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