Source: redalertpolitic Posted By: Len W...4134 days ago
It’s been a full three months since the sequester went into effect, but the Obama administration is still blaming it for our nation’s struggles, this time in....
Source: washingtontimes Posted By: Bailey C...4135 days ago
The U.S. education system is not as globally competitive as it used to be, a study by the Council on Foreign Relations revealed on Monday. “The real scourge....
Source: New York Times Posted By: Jason B...4139 days ago
The number of Americans graduating from college has surged in recent years, sending the share with a college degree to a new high, federal data shows. The surge....
Source: USA Today Posted By: Jason B...4139 days ago
There's little that you can be sure of in this crazy economic environment, but one thing that seems certain is that most kids need a college degree to get ahead....
Source: sltrib.com Posted By: Jacky S...4140 days ago
Utah must significantly ramp up the number of people earning college degrees and certificates to meet its goal of increasing those numbers to 66 percent by the year....
Source: nationalreview. Posted By: Ronny F...4141 days ago
Over the last decade, the U.S. Department of Education has become so congested with federal mandates that it has become, in effect, a national school board. If....
Source: blog.heritage.o Posted By: Ronny F...4141 days ago
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives could have widespread benefits to parents saving for a child’s education. The Helping Families Save for Education....
Source: spokesman.com Posted By: Len W...4142 days ago
Study after study shows that a college degree is the best chance for low-income students to improve their lives. But those students may feel powerless to make college....
Source: L. A. Times Posted By: Cat B...4146 days ago
For Steven Ancheta, the time is long past for more arguments about online education's merits and convenience. The West Covina resident, who is enrolled in a fully....
Source: citizensvoice.c Posted By: Maxcy J...4147 days ago
While Gov. Tom Corbett was touting some of his plans to a friendly business crowd across town, a small group of parents and union workers - brandishing hand-made....
Source: tauntongazette. Posted By: Len W...4134 days ago
Despite its more than 100 institutions of higher education, Massachusetts’ education system is ill-equipped to prepare young people for the 21st century workplace.....
Source: nwitimes.com Posted By: Len W...4134 days ago
The Valparaiso School Corporation is dedicated to providing a safe and supportive educational environment, from elementary school, to middle school, to high school....
Source: hechingerreport Posted By: Len W...4134 days ago
California has been trying to reform how it educates teachers for more than a decade, and some of its ideas have become a model for the rest of the country. But....
Source: chronicle.com Posted By: Bailey C...4135 days ago
Colleges of education are "an industry of mediocrity" that churns out unprepared teachers to work in the nation's elementary and secondary schools, according to....
Source: economist.com Posted By: Jason B...4139 days ago
HERE’S a multiple-choice question: if the federal government penalises states where pupils do badly in school, but lets the states themselves set the pass mark,....
Source: economix.blogs. Posted By: Jason B...4139 days ago
Republicans and Democrats are hurtling toward another bipartisan standoff, this one over rival plans on the interest rates to be charged on subsidized federal loans....
Source: Forbes Posted By: Ronny F...4141 days ago
Hardly a day goes by without the publication of articles on the plight of recent college graduates. Large numbers are either unemployed or employed in jobs that....
Source: L. A. Times Posted By: Len W...4142 days ago
In the ongoing discussion of how to boost the education and skill levels of the American workforce, one central issue is rarely addressed: the gap between male and....
Source: huffingtonpost. Posted By: Cat B...4146 days ago
A Wells Fargo stock analyst, who boosts for-profit colleges while frequently overlooking their abuses, lays the blame for one particularly predatory college's high....
Source: statesman.com Posted By: Cat B...4146 days ago
The wheels are falling off the Texas public education system. The current STAAR regime is an extremely expensive system that focuses on state-mandated standardized....
Source: harvardmagazine Posted By: Len W...4142 days ago
James E. Ryan, a scholar at the crossroads of education, law, and policy, will become the new dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on September....
Source: mlive.com Posted By: Cat B...4146 days ago
Western Michigan University is one of 13 institutions of higher education nationwide tapped by the Environmental Protection Agency this week to participate in climate....
Source: startribune.com Posted By: Cat B...4146 days ago
A $12.3 million surprise gift from a South Dakota farmer and businesswoman is the largest to the University of Minnesota’s College of Food, Agriculture and Natural....
Source: economictimes.i Posted By: Maxcy J...4147 days ago
A 20-year-old Indian student from Cornell University hacked into the database of ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) school exam results, exposed glaring anomalies....
Source: variety.com Posted By: Maxcy J...4147 days ago
“America’s oldest teenager†Dick Clark is being honored by Syracuse University. The college’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications revealed plans....
Source: Fox News Posted By: Erin H...4148 days ago
Three more people will face charges in the April kidnapping of a 6-year-old Kemper County girl. Kemper County Sheriff James Moore tells WTOK-TV that University....
Source: blog.chron.com Posted By: Billy T...4149 days ago
University of Houston students will have another housing option in the fall of 2014. Dallas-based Fountain Residential Partners is building The Vue on MacGregor,....
Source: montgomeryadver Posted By: Anna C...4150 days ago
The University of Alabama this month is marking the 50th anniversary of then-Gov. George Wallace's "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" against racial integration. The....
Source: abclocal.go.com Posted By: Anna C...4150 days ago
The rapidly clearing faculty lot signaled that it was time to go home. The Texas A&M University dean backed his shiny red vehicle out of its parking spot -- the....
Source: oregonlive.com Posted By: Mary P...4153 days ago
Michael Gottfredson, dressed in a muted green suit, speaks in a whisper-soft voice. But he does not equivocate when describing his No. 1 job as president of....
Source: nymag.com Posted By: Bailey C...4135 days ago
The Miss USA contest, owned by yellow-orange tuft of hair Donald Trump, has a new queen. "A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children,....
Source: Fox News Posted By: Renee H...4155 days ago
Veterans face delays when applying for education benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), making it more difficult for them to receive an education....
Source: ajc.com Posted By: Jacky S...4163 days ago
Didn’t win this weekend’s $590.5 million lottery jackpot? A lot of us know the feeling. The lone, mystery winner in Florida hasn’t come forward yet with....
Source: news.google.com Posted By: Lillie S...4169 days ago
Another school year is drawing to a close — so if you have young children, they're one year closer to the day when they head off to college. And both you and your....
Source: newsfeed.time.c Posted By: Lillie S...4169 days ago
Were you the type of college student who preferred to hide in your dorm room blasting Metallica instead of studying? Did you skip class to travel to a Black Sabbath....
Source: ABC News Posted By: Bailey C...4170 days ago
For Kelsey Hough, a tiny peanut is a big problem. So big, in fact, that the 26-year-old student says her life-threatening peanut allergy forced her to abandon her....
Source: CBS News Posted By: Bailey C...4170 days ago
With college graduation season upon us, here are 12 great gift ideas for new grads: 1. "The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform....
Source: slate.com Posted By: Renee H...4174 days ago
As a kid, I wanted desperately to be good at sports. This was not because I enjoyed playing them. I did not. It was because I’d learned that physical education....
Source: today.com Posted By: Hilmer J...4176 days ago
Madonna sold an abstract painting by French artist Fernand Leger for $7.16 million on Tuesday to raise funds for girls' education projects in Afghanistan, Pakistan....
Source: huffingtonpost. Posted By: Bill 4179 days ago
Pornography has officially become academic. The new journal, Porn Studies, will become the "the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically....