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Two new March 10 press releases from the U.S. Department of Education has been brought to my attension, and both of them are very intriguing.

Most people, especially college recruiters, believe that a student's senior and junior year of high school are the years that students should take seriously, but they may change their minds once they read a press release revealing that, in 2002, 72 percent of America's sophmores planned to get a bachelor's degree or higher and most (83 percent) rated getting a good education as "very important." This fact as well as many other interesting facts came from A Profile of the American High School Sophomore in 2002, released by the Department's National Center for Education Statistics.

After reading the release, maybe you all can check out the online version of A Profile of the American blah, blah, blah by going to http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005338 .


The other press release involves President Bush's $56 billion Education Budget. Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings strongly urged the House of Representatives to approve the budget, which includes the Bush's $1.24 billion High School Intervention initiative, $200 million for the Striving Readers program (a $175 million increase over 2005), $120 million for a new Secondary Education Mathematics initiative, and much, much more.