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Jewel Samad, AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Obama speaking Thursday at the University of Buffalo. For the last few days, President Obama has been hinting about a new education plan that, he claims ...
President Obama was first inaugurated in January 2009, in the depths of the Great Recession and a severe financial crisis that began in 2007. His presidency continued the banking bailout and auto industry rescue begun by the George W. Bush administration and immediately enacted an $800 billion stimulus program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which included a blend ...
President Barack Obama pushed for stricter teaching standards and a longer school year to improve the American education system, Bloomberg News reported, citing Obama's appearance on NBC's "Today ...
America's College Promise was a proposal by the Barack Obama administration to offer all students two free years of community college tuition. [1] [2] [3] It was based on the Tennessee Promise, a similar program for the state of Tennessee. State level programs, like the Tennessee Promise, have faced critique for their ability to fill tangible ...
Obama's mother completed her coursework at the University of Hawaii for an M.A. in anthropology in December 1974. [38] After three years in Hawaii, she and Maya returned to Jakarta in August 1975, [39] where Dunham completed her contract with the Institute of Management Education and Development and started anthropological fieldwork. [40]
In an effort to boost worker skills to better match the needs of employers, President Barack Obama unveiled a new initiative that seeks to increase workforce development, worker training and job ...
The 2010 "Education Nation" summit took place this past week in New York City. It's goal? To discuss ways to improve a national education system that has fallen far behind that of other nations.
The U.S. Department of Education, under the direction of the Obama Administration, and Obama appointee William Mendoza, as executive director of the White House initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, [23] [24] has created policies that seek to address disparities in education that affect Native American and American Indian ...