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Career-track Programs are Boosting Individual Lives And The Economy
By Mitchell Schnurman For young people discouraged by double-digit unemployment and huge student loans, here’s an option that sounds too good to be true: a career program that takes 12 months, costs $4,100, including books, and places 97 percent of its graduates in jobs. And the median pay tops $40,000 a year. The catch? It’s … Continue reading
Texas Needs More Minority Teachers, Experts Say
By TERRENCE STUTZ AUSTIN – Texas‘ minority student enrollment continues to surge, but the state’s teacher corps isn’t keeping pace. That has left large numbers of black and Hispanic children without the role models experts believe would help them achieve more. Hispanic students made up more than 48 percent of the enrollment in Texas schools … Continue reading
College Board Finds Minority Men Continue to Lag Academically
By LILY ALTAVENA The College Board is releasing two reports today on the crisis facing young black and Latino men, who, the reports find, continue to be measurably less educated than minority women and white men. According to the reports, 16 percent of Latino and 28 percent of African-American men ages 25 to 34 had … Continue reading
Gwinnett County Schools to Form Principal Training Partnership with Texas-based Bush Institute
ATLANTA — Former First Lady Laura Bush is in town to announce a new partnership between the George W. Bush Institute and Gwinnett County schools. Gwinnett County, the largest district in the state, is joining six other education partners working with the institute through the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership. The initiative, created last year, … Continue reading
Saying More With Less
Mission statements, despite being referenced as the philosophical essences of their respective institutions, don’t get much respect on college campuses. Often wordy and cumbersome, they don’t get the airtime or T-shirt placement enjoyed by new advertising slogans or the classic Latin motto. Everybody in Cambridge knows “Veritas,” but you’d be hard-pressed to find a sweatshirt … Continue reading
Our Neighbors: Higher Education
* A&M Consolidated High School graduate Jennings Kennady recently participated in a language immersion program in Seville, Spain, where she earned an Intermedio B1 certificate from Centro de Lenguas e Intercambio Cultural. Kennady — who finished her high school coursework in December, graduated Cum Laude and received a National Merit Recognition Award, National Merit Sponsorship … Continue reading
Crossing State Lines Gets Tougher for Colleges, Universities
By Anna Mitchell CLEMSON — For-profit college students are defaulting at double-digit rates on federally backed education loans. New federal regulations aimed at controlling the industry, though, also affect nonprofit and public institutions that offer online courses and out-of-state internships. At cash-strapped Clemson University, officials estimate they will spend tens of thousands of dollars and … Continue reading
Pauken: Higher Ed Changes Needed for Future
By Anita Miller Texas and the nation need to break away from the “one size fits all” attitude concerning higher education. That was among points made by Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken on Thursday after he addressed a Texas Rural Challenge meeting at the San Marcos Conference Center. “We’ve got to bring it back,” … Continue reading
One nation, Undereducated
By RICHARD W. BADER Are you smarter than a fifth-grader? While some of us would say “yes,” many Americans know more about the Simpsons and the judges on American Idol than they do about the U.S. Constitution. Out of 1,001 U.S. adults who recently took a multiple choice test on basic U.S. civics and history, 89 … Continue reading
Tablets Make Digital Textbooks Cool on Campus
By Bertha Coombs Prentiss Ashford wouldn’t call himself a big fan of economics, but the sophomore at Abilene Christian University in Texas says this semester he found himself turning to his econ textbook whenever he had spare moment. The iPad 2. While students in college today are very attached to their mobile devices, they have … Continue reading
College Online Growth Continues
By Oliver Sheehan The Navarro College Board of Trustees heard positive news at its regular monthly meeting on Thursday about the consistent growth of online classes being taken by students, which now account for approximately 22 percent of all Navarro College enrollments. An overview of how the courses have grown, including steps taken by the … Continue reading
Keeping Kids in School
By Sally Sexton Despite low drop out rates, schools in Parker County are doing all that they can to provide education opportunities. Once a student drops out, their chances of college and career choices drop with them. “The reason to stay in school is fairly obvious,” Nita Ellis, Weatherford ISD executive director of student services, … Continue reading
Texas’ Manufacturing, Human Capital Grades Low
If one of your children brought home a report card with two As, one B+, one B, three Cs, a C-, and one D, what would you do? After all, that’s kind of a broad range of grades, and you’d probably take the subjects and the performance trend into account as you reacted to your … Continue reading
LSCS to Lead Texas Group to Change Policy, Boost College Graduation
By Kassia Micek THE WOODLANDS – The Lone Star College System is leading an initiative to increase college graduation rates across Texas and hopefully throughout the United States. LSCS, which had 85,000 students enrolled this spring, is one of four colleges in the U.S. to receive a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant. Other states … Continue reading
Does The Next Generation Have What It Takes to Compete in a Global Market?
Teens from 9 cities in the United States, India and the United Kingdom give a thundering answer in a global business plan competition that culminated The Indus Entrepreneurs`TiE Young Entrepreneurs program (TyE) in Raleigh, NC on April 30th at Cisco Systems and NC State University. The 140 teenagers involved in the TyE program dedicated their … Continue reading
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- Rick Scott, Florida Governor, Cuts College Funding, Vetoes Unlimited Tuition Hike Bill
- La Raza Launches Campaign to Register Hispanic Voters
- Next Generation: What Does the Future Hold for Hispanic College Graduates?
- Luidia finds that tight budgets change, don’t eliminate tech implementations
- Romney’s Attack on Latinos Sends the Right Off a Cliff
- In our schools: Keys to helping non-native speakers learn
- Florida GOP moving forward with several bills to increase state funding for charter schools
- Jeb Bush foundation helps shape Florida education policy
- Latino swing voters and higher ed
- Florida Set for New Cut in Spending on Colleges – Tuition Increase
Americans For Prosperity – Texas
- Blogger provides fresh perspective of UT President Powers’ astroturf campaign to keep his job
- Texas primary ballot initiatives - non-binding polls
- Harmony Schools on CBS 60 Minutes - Turkish English teachers are needed
- School Board members censure fellow member - for dissent
- TPPF's Tom Lindsay and Maverick Owner Mark Cuban provide insight which could rock UT's ivory tower
- UT Regents Commended for Standing Up to Powers
- Texas to FWS: Leave Texas -- and the Lizard -- Alone
- San Antonio pushing almost $.5 Billion bond initiative
- AFP is the messenger of news Obama doesn't want out
- Local Governments Racking up Debt: House Ways & Means Committee Hearing - Testimony by Peggy Venable
Univision Austin
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Times of Florida
- Rick Scott, Florida Governor, Cuts College Funding, Vetoes Unlimited Tuition Hike Bill
- La Raza Launches Campaign to Register Hispanic Voters
- Next Generation: What Does the Future Hold for Hispanic College Graduates?
- Luidia finds that tight budgets change, don’t eliminate tech implementations
- Romney’s Attack on Latinos Sends the Right Off a Cliff
- In our schools: Keys to helping non-native speakers learn
- Florida GOP moving forward with several bills to increase state funding for charter schools
- Jeb Bush foundation helps shape Florida education policy
- Latino swing voters and higher ed
- Florida Set for New Cut in Spending on Colleges – Tuition Increase
AgendaWise Reports
- Speaker Struas stragglers marked
- Murphy Turner connected to shadow PACs
- Trina Lanza on her priorities for the 83rd Legislature
- Diane Patrick on her priorities for the 83rd Legislature
- Straus the weak
- Diane Patrick on her vote for speaker
- Trina Lanza on her vote for speaker
- Vicki Truitt’s Trouble
- Mark Shelton on the expansion of gambling
- Mark Shelton on his priorities for the 83rd Legislature
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Freedomworks.org Texas
- Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey endorses Matt Beebe for State Representative in Texas House District 121
- FreedomWorks Grassroots Training in Round Rock, Tx on Feb. 18th
- FreedomWorks Grassroots Events in Texas - January 2012
- FreedomWorks grassroots training in Shreveport, Louisiana on Oct. 8th!
- Another One Bites the (Fracking) Dust
- In the Shadow of the Senate: A New Tax Emerges
- Join FreedomWorks and local Houston-area groups for grassroots training on July 16th
- Texas to TSA: "Come and Take It."
- Join FreedomWorks and Houston Tea Party on July 16th!
- The Light Bulb Resistance Movement
Freedomworks.org Florida
- CPAC Florida Recap
- Champions of Freedom Rout Competition in Florida
- Champions of Freedom Rout Competition in Florida
- FreedomWorks Kicks Off 'Give Us Liberty' Tour in Florida this week!
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- Florida State Legislature is Back, and So Is the Need for Insurance Reform
- Florida State Legislature is Back, and So Is the Need for Insurance Reform
- Woman's year-ago protest launched tea party movement in Florida
STEM
- STEM Ed Update: Sign-on Letter on Federal Budget, Upcoming Events, NEW STEM Reports
- Coalition Issues Core Policy Principles for 2012
- Coalition Testifies to House Approps on NSF’s Education Programs
- Quotes on STEM Education from the 2/28 House Markup of ESEA Legislation
- The White House Invites You to Join on a Budget Call to Discuss STEM Education
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