Those Taking Graduate Test Abruptly Drop in Number
(The New York Times 2008/12/9, Tamar Lewin )
In bad times, the conventional wisdom has it, people flock to graduate school. But there is at least one sign that in this recession, that may not happen.
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http://www.urban.org/toolkit/fivequestions/archives.cfm In the mid-1960s, President Johnson saw the need for independent nonpartisan analysis of the problems facing America's cities and their residents. The President created a blue-ribbon commission of civic leaders who recommended chartering a center to do that work and in 1968, the Urban Institute became that center...
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