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education

[ej-oo-key-shuhn] / ˌɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃən /


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What does it mean for education, or collaboration, or the publication of ideas, or how we train the next generation?

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

The education ministry expressed "profound sadness" in a statement on Thursday, noting that the tragedy "followed a particularly concerning series of fires in Bukavu".

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

Givan added that the change will also apply to physical education.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

My 87-year-old mother wants to pay for my brother’s kids’ education.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

Miss Lumley, I can tell from your clear thinking, good grammar, and tidy penmanship that you are a superior governess; this reflects well upon your own education.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Increasingly, parents are draining money from retirement accounts and home equity to pay for their children’s educations.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Experts and couples interviewed by AFP spoke of a combination of factors, including longer educations and growing professional ambitions among women, along with rising divorce rates and financial strain on young professionals.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Hershbein found that in the first quarter the labor-force participation rate—the share of the population either working or looking for work—averaged 75.9% for people whose educations span high school through associate degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

County voters with college or graduate educations were much more likely than others to think Bass was doing a poor or very poor job.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 11, 2025

As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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