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MTV reports:

NEW YORK — On Thursday night, Jay-Z hosted a carnival at the Hudson River Park pier for his Shawn Carter Foundation. But it wasn’t all Ferris wheels and funnel cakes — unfortunately Momofuku doesn’t make those. The event was called Making Ordinary Extraordinary, and it sought to raise funds for college scholarships.

MTV News caught up with Mr. Carter at the event, where he said the evening was about having fun while raising money for a good cause. Jay said two of the worst things in life are a waste of talent and a person who applies him- or herself but is unable to advance due to financial hardship. He hoped this foundation would help ease such burdens and assist people in recognizing their potential.

“Just providing opportunity and seeing what people do with that opportunity. If you want to go further and you want to further your education, just giving someone that extra little push [so] that maybe you’ll turn out to be someone special,” Jay said.
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 Source: Men’sHealth

Where is the best educated city in America?

Answer: Madison, Wisconsin.

To evaluate the education of 100 cities, Men’s Health tabulated the Department of Education’s high-school graduation rates, along with U.S. Census figures on school enrollment (kindergarten through grad school) and education levels of people over 25 (less than high school, associate’s or bachelor’s degree, graduate or professional degree).   Full list after the jump.

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source: HuffingtonPost

The top two universities in the world are both in Cambridge — but on different sides of the world.

University of Cambridge in England occupies the No. 1 spot in QS’s list of the world’s best universities. Following it is Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

American universities dominate the list, with University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania and MIT, among others, earning top grades.

Research company QS has been ranking universities worldwide since 2004. Their global survey of 2,000 colleges takes into account reputation, faculty citations, student-faculty ratio and international population. See more on their methodology here.

Top 20 Universities in the World

  1. University of Cambridge  UK
  2. Harvard University   USA
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)   USA
  4. Yale University  USA
  5. Universtiy of Oxford  UK
  6. Imperial College London  UK
  7. University College of London  UK
  8. University of Chicago  USA
  9. University of Pennsylvania  USA
  10. Columbia University   USA
  11. Stanford University  USA
  12. California Institute of Technology  USA
  13. Princeton University  USA
  14. University of Michigan  USA
  15. Cornell University  USA
  16. John Hopkins University  USA
  17. McGill University  Canada
  18. ETH Zurich  Switzerland
  19. Duke University  USA
  20. University of Edinburgh UK