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Best bang-for-buck college is Amherst? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
Washington Monthly‘s 2013 College Guide and Rankings “asks not what colleges can do for you, but what colleges are doing for the country.” Are they educating low-income students, or just catering to ...
College rah rah bah 26 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
“Millions of young people will never attend four-year colleges,” writes Sarah Carr in the Wilson Quarterly. “America must do more to equip them to secure good jobs and live fulfilling lives.” From Pr...
Obama plan worries community colleges 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
President Obama’s plan to link federal aid to colleges’ graduation rates and graduates’ earnings “falls somewhere between “irrelevant” and “catastrophic” for community colleges. Private colleges that...
Why college costs so much 26 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
Growing federal subsidies have inflated the cost of college, economist Richard Vedder tells the Wall Street Journal. ”It gives every incentive and every opportunity for colleges to raise their fees.”...
From high school A’s to college F’s 25 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
Kashawn Campbell, a straight A student at an inner-city Los Angeles high school, went to Berkeley with a great attitude, a great work ethic, lots of “grit” — and weak reading and writing skills, repor...
21 Detroit schools are open 7 days a week 25 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
Twenty-one Detroit schools will stay open 12 hours a day, seven days a week to provide tutoring, recreation, health care, parenting classes and other social services. State funds and donations from l...
‘My favorite no’ 24 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
In what she calls “my favorite no,” math teacher Leah Alcala shows students how to learn from mistakes.
Teaching ‘grit’ 24 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Teaching “grit” – resilience, persistence, conscientiousness — is the topic of an Education Week roundtable. Teaching non-cognitive skills blames the victim, writes Darnell Fine, a “multicultural edu...
The school clerk who talked down a gunman 24 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Michael Brandon Hill, 20, walked into the office of an Atlanta elementary school with an AK-47 and 500 rounds of ammunition on Tuesday. But no one will remember the tragic deaths at McNair Discovery L...
Feds end ’2% rule’ for disabled students 23 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Disabled students won’t be counted as proficient — unless they’re really meeting college and career readiness standards, under new regulations proposed by the U.S. Education Department. Currently, th...
