Education stocks: It pays to get (and give) an education

— -- Q: How can I find education stocks that will be helped by President Obama's stimulus plan?

A: As unemployment rises, many laid-off employees are going back to school to acquire new skills.

And as the U.S. workforce looks for places to retool itself, Apollo is only one of the providers of for-profit education. Here are some of its most notable publicly traded rivals:

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