Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education has launched a new interactive tool that for the first time makes accessible the most recent data for college completion rates across the United States.

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As Tim O’Reilly tweeted last week, “Data Science is the new black.” Data has definitely got people talking, and thinking, and rethinking the implications, and that includes a growing number of leading journalists and journalism schools…and media funders.

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Over the last few years, I've worked to spread the word about the successes of foreign aid. Too often people think it's ineffective, or wasted money, when the data suggests just the opposite. It works, and has improved the well being of the world's poor in many concrete ways.

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I am a believer in human ability and ingenuity. I believe it is our duty to try our best to make the health of each successive generation better.

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It was in 1980, in a nomadic community in Mauritania, that I first attended a woman during birth. There, I experienced with her the fragile balance of life and death and the sweet joy of a mother embracing her healthy newborn daughter.

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