Do you remember arguing with your parents about having to do your homework when your favorite TV show was on? Did they respond with “You can watch TV after its done”? Or maybe they said the famous one-liner: “School is your job, I go to work everyday, so, you have to go to school,” when you were trying to stay home “sick.”

But what if school really was a child’s job? Meaning at the end of each week they received a paycheck?

A study of children in Chicago, Dallas, Washington and New York presented this proposition.

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Ohio State University president, Gordon Gee

Time magazine just released their list of the country’s ten best college presidents. The notables that made the list come from a mix of colleges and universities from throughout the country. Some of them manage some of the nation’s largest public universities in states that are suffering dearly from the economic recession and others have made great strides to turn their schools into the greenest academic institutions in the country.

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