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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
* 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The economy and jobs will be big issues in Washington again this coming week. While unemployment among the general population is about 9.1 percent, it’s at 16.2 percent African Americans, […]
By Daniel Borunda The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has selected El Paso Community College to take part in a program intended to increase graduation rates at community colleges across […]
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. -Tennyson by Tom Vander Ark Leaders create directed change. They change things that need to be changed. They develop breadth […]
Bt Scott Kirk When do you start talking to your child about college? When he’s 12? When she’s 16? How about pre-kindergarten? The College Board, the people who brought us […]
Texas Gov. Rick Perryis beginning to sound more and more like a presidential candidate, even as his advisers insist he remains several weeks — at least — away from a […]
