Education

Entrepreneurial aspirations among fifth- through 12th-graders in the United States have remained high and stable over the past year, according to the 2012 Gallup-HOPE Index. However, relatively few are gaining real-world work experience while they’re still …

Iowa State University is a part of “Collaborating for Kids,” a new partnership between the Iowa Department of Education, area education agencies and school districts aimed at getting all Iowa students reading on grade level …

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for December was unchanged from November at 4.9 percent, Iowa Workforce Development announced this morning. A year earlier, the state’s unemployment rate stood at 5.6 percent. The U.S. jobless rate …

The online bachelor’s degree program at AIB College of Business was No. 21 among 237 institutions in the category of Student Services & Technology in the 2013 Best Online Education Program rankings by U.S. News …

Clive-based benefits research firm David P. Lind Benchmark (DPLB) has developed a new index tool designed to enable Iowa employers to determine the competitiveness of their benefits packages relative to other companies in the state. …

Iowa’s charter school laws rank among the worst in the nation, according to a report by the advocacy group Center for Education Reform.

The group’s 2013 Charter School Laws Across the States Ranking and Scorecard report gives …

DuPont Pioneer donated $250,000 to the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture’s My American Farm virtual educational programming.

The donation will support new games and resources, increased outreach to K-12 students and a mobile application …

This morning, Gov. Terry Branstad proposed a five-year, $187 million education reform package that would “bring Iowa closer to its goal of providing a world-class education to all children, no matter where they live.”

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