There have been some changes for women in urban areas, where education, health care, and employment outside the home have become more available.

In her mind, the education had become almost secondary.

Now that manual labor can be done in developing countries for $2 a day, skills and education have become more essential than ever.

Physical education becomes once a week for 2 periods.

By any measure, public higher education has become substantially less affordable, and this has created a serious problem for the state.

Still, even the mediocre and haphazard education I received somehow became that wall between us.

Now even an education for his son, a fourth-grader, is becoming a luxury.

"Besides," he said, "look at how popular adult education has become; she's just doing now what we'll do later."

Environmental education must become as basic as reading, writing and arithmetic.

We live at a time when education is becoming ever more important as a factor in production.