By Kerri S. Mabee School is out for thousands of Southwest Riverside students, but that doesn’t mean that parents aren’t already thinking ahead to the fall. That’s when roughly 245 […]
By Joy Pullman Chester Finn is right to bring up doubts about nationalizing Texas’s education policies, but unfortunately for the wrong reasons. Finn’s worry about national standards should apply more […]
Voters want cost control for higher education By William Lutz The public wants more efficiency and less spending in higher education. “Texas voters want more value and higher quality teaching for […]
BATON ROUGE, La., June 20 — The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release: High-speed Internet connections are on the way to rural areas of Louisiana, and […]
MANY thanks to the commenters on yesterday’s post who suggested that the cost of higher education might be a good store of value against which to measure the progress of […]
Where Does the $ Go? By Charlotte Allen From reading news stories about multimillion-dollar gifts to universities, it’s easy to get the impression that the donors are mostly rich people with […]
By JAMI MAKAN 1. “We’re getting desperate.” Times are tough for fund-raisers and the nonprofits they serve. For decades American individuals and institutions have increased their annual donating by an […]
A new study has found that two of the four main parts of the ACT — science and reading — have “little or no” ability to help colleges predict whether […]
By AUGUSTA DWYER Every year, air transport services operator NAV Canada receives a daunting number of online applications for one the world’s most demanding jobs: air traffic controller. The only […]
By Teresa Snow With competition from around the world, there’s more pressure on students in the US to achieve in the classroom. But can that success be measured by standardized […]
By James Vaznis The College Board unveiled an initiative at a forum at Harvard University yesterday to improve the academic achievement of young men of color, saying that bolstering their […]
Americans are counting their pennies these days, taking a close look at everything from the cost of milk to the cost of their mortgages. A college education is one investment […]
What do you get when college costs skyrocket but incomes barely budge? Yet another blow to the middle class. “As the out-of-pocket costs of a college education go up faster […]
After receiving several extremely defensive emails from UT President William Powers Jr., I wanted to learn more about the higher education debate that has obviously struck a nerve and was […]
A seminar entitled “How to Pay for College” was hosted recently by The Bank of New Canaan, featuring a presentation by financial adviser Charles Wareham of LPL Financial of Hartford. […]
