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Cesar Juarez rides the bus to school like so many college students — head against the glass, earphones streaming down his olive jacket, eyes straight ahead.

The 22-year-old was a full-time student until this semester, when he and his family discovered they were facing possible foreclosure on their San Jose home. That reality has left him a part-time student this semester, but the situation doesn’t dampen his spirits.

Juarez keeps a positive outlook because he focuses every day on being a student and helping others realize their educational dreams.

“Education and studying is essential,” he says, “but you have to practice what you preach.”

Juarez is working toward a degree in social science, hoping he might work as a teacher when he’s finished. » Read more after the jump →

The state’s first scholarship program for young people to learn professional trading and investing skills has been launched by Online Trading Academy of Colorado. It is called the Young Trader Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded three times each year to a member of each winning team in the “The Stock Market Game” in grades 10-12. The “Stock Market Game” is sponsored by the Colorado Council on Economic Education (CCEE) throughout the state’s schools to promote economic and financial literacy. This new Young Trader Scholarship comes at an appropriate time, when financial institutions and markets are in unprecedented turmoil. The scholarship supports the continuing expansion of educational programs to develop economic and financial literacy in Colorado schools. Trading and investing education is essential for anyone who wishes to manage and master their own financial future, including young people.

Online Trading Academy began in 1997 and currently operates 26 academies around the world. NASDAQ chose Online Trading Academy as its strategic partner to provide educational content on TotalView®, its premier market data product. As the only “brick and mortar” trading school in Colorado, it provides courses in stocks, options, foreign currencies, and futures using “live trading” funded with the Academy’s money. For more information about Online Trading Academy’s Young Trader Scholarship or its courses, instructors, and history, visit: http://www.tradingacademy.com/locations.htm#colorado or call 303-325-2776.
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5/17/2008 - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that two voucher programs for foster and disabled children attending private schools violate the Arizona Constitution by using public money to help private and religious schools.

The 3-0 ruling Thursday by a Court of Appeals panel in Tucson reverses a trial judge’s ruling that upheld the programs enacted in 2006 at the urging of “school choice” supporters.

The programs provide grants worth thousands of dollars for students, with the money paid in checks to parents who must endorse them over to the schools involved.

The ruling is the first major ruling by an Arizona court on a school-choice issue since the Arizona Supreme Court in 1999 upheld allowing state income tax credits for donations for scholarships for private school students.
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By Arthur E. Foulkes
The Tribune-Star

U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar was in Terre Haute on Friday to meet with students training to become doctors serving rural areas.

“So many people want to do rural medicine,” Lugar said before meeting with dozens of medical students at the Richard G. Lugar Center for Rural Health. “People are being served in the western part of Indiana in a much better way” than before, he said.

As many as 80 medical students have started training at the Lugar Center, said Dr. Jim Turner, director of the center. The students will fill a big need for medical doctors in rural communities, he said.

“Only 4 percent of students graduating from medical school now want to work in a town of less than 25,000,” Turner said. About 20 percent of Americans live in rural areas, but only about 9 percent of the nation’s physicians live in those same areas, he added. “So it’s a challenge right there.” » Read more after the jump →

A new program that will attract new nursing students from a DeKalb County school to the University of Alabama-Birmingham is one step away from reality.

UAB’s Beth Stullenbarger received a three-year, $867,000 grant to get more minorities, rural students and first-generation college students into nursing.

She said minority nurses are needed in part because they’re more likely to return to underserved communities, but also because it’s important for health care providers to be able to relate to their patients.

“We know there is a tremendous shortage of nurses in this state and is about to get worse,” Stullenbarger said. “Our goal is to make sure the students who want to be nurses can get the academic background needed to become nurses.
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Career and college-exploration workshops, college tours, financial-aid and scholarship workshops. Located at Chief Sealth, West Seattle and Cleveland high schools. Also at Denny Middle School, Career Link Academy and Middle College High School.

Eligibility: Middle- and high-school students who attend the designated schools and who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, low-income and first-generation college students. Six hundred students served each year. 2007’s graduating class of 175 earned more than $2 million in scholarships. Applications open year-round through high schools’ career centers, or by calling TRiO.

Other Talent Search programs: University of Washington serves north Snohomish and south Skagit counties, including Mount Baker and Cascade middle schools and Sedro-Woolley, Marysville and Mt. Vernon high schools. Call 206-616-1948 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/talent.

E-Learning dates back the better part of 100 years to 1922, when Pennsylvania State College broadcast courses over the radio.

Today’s e-Learners can study everything from souffle making to surgery, and British Columbia is at the leading edge in the field.

E-Learning isn’t simply signing up for an online course instead of sitting in a classroom. It encompasses a wide and varied range of learning all driven by technology.

It could be the University of B.C.’s distance medical education — a first for Canada that is seeing students from around the province studying in virtual classrooms that deliver the same education and credentials, regardless of whether they are in Prince George or at the Point Grey campus.
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