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 middle-schoolers will fill the desks at a new Temecula charter school — Context Middle School. Founder Michele Smith, whose background in business has informed her … Continue reading
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 to his own views on federalizing education than to Gov. Rick Perry’s wish to free states from federal control. The real reason to doubt Perry’s … Continue reading
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 the tax dollars they pay to support higher education,” said Justin Keener, TPPF vice president of policy and communications. “The results give lawmakers and university … Continue reading
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 the LSU AgCenter will soon begin preparing rural residents for its arrival. LSU AgCenter family and consumer sciences agent Valerie Vincent explained the program at … Continue reading
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 gold. As the passport to career success (although not for entrepreneurs) in the developed world, higher education does seem a pretty good indicator. Commonfund publishes … Continue reading
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 pronounced ideological agendas—or else they wouldn’t open their wallets so readily. In April 2010, for example, the billionaire-financier George Soros, known for his funding of … Continue reading
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 average of about 3 percent. But in 2009 they gave $304 billion, 3.2 percent less than in 2008, the worst drop since the 1980s, according … Continue reading
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 applicants will success The analysis also found that the other two parts — English and mathematics — are “highly predictive” of college success. But because … Continue reading
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 requirements for the position are a high school diploma and Canadian citizenship or permanent resident status. As a result, the company receives more than 16,000 … Continue reading
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 testing? Or is the focus all wrong? In Monday’s Facebook story of the day we look at the value of teaching for success …on a test. … Continue reading
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 educational success should be a national priority. In making the announcement at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the board … Continue reading
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 under fire. Since World War II, owning a house and getting a college degree was the American dream, a sign that you have truly made … Continue reading
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 than incomes, it’s pricing low and medium income families out of a college education,” said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of financial aid sites FinAid.org and FastWeb.com. … Continue reading
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 seemingly being hurriedly swept under the rug. What I learned was pretty depressing. College tuition has been skyrocketing over the past decade, but Powers was … Continue reading
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. When describing the federal and state budget deficits, combined with the recently skyrocketing costs of college, Wareham said that college funding has become a “perfect … Continue reading
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