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The Economics of Leaning In
Sheryl Sandberg is being cast as the Betty Friedan of her generation. In case you missed the 43-year-old Facebook executive speaking with Oprah or on the cover of Time, the thesis of her “Lean In” book...
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Male African-American unemployment is over 50 percent among dropouts
More than half of male African-American high school dropouts are unemployed, according to a new online analysis of unemployment data by Remapping Debate, a left-of-center news site in New York. “This...
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Department of Education announces that 20 new schools will open in the Bronx...
New high schools will prepare students for careers in health or software engineering BY JENNIFER H. CUNNINGHAM / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ERICK VIVIDOR VIA PANORAMIO Samuel Gompers High School, where new...
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Turning on Turnitin: Software to detect student plagiarism is faced with...
By Ry Rivard Software to detect student plagiarism is faced with renewed criticism from the faculty members who may confront more plagiarism than do most of their colleagues – college writing...
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The Benefits of Being Stupid at Work
By Megan Hustad | Fortune – Yahoo! Finance/Getty Images - Would you rather be thoughtless and successful or intelligent and frustrated? A recent article in the New Scientist addressed the never-ending...
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5 Ways No Child Left Behind Waivers Help State Education Reform
by Robert Hanna SOURCE: AP/ Daniel ShankenBarbra Fry teaches vocabulary during an English as a Second Language class at South Side Elementary School in Harrisburg Pa. The Secretary of Education has...
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Moving Away from Credit Hours in Higher Education
by David A. Bergeron SOURCE: AP/Seth Perlman Gloria Newton Davlantis speaks with students seeking employment during a University of Illinois Job Fair in Springfield, Illinois. Higher Education based...
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Higher education leaders move to ease online rules
By Nick Anderson Higher education leaders are pushing to expand the online market by simplifying the rules colleges must follow to enroll students from around the country.Under a system based on...
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Scholarships Served Up for Nutrition Students
By SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA Scholarships are available for students who are interested in studying nutrition and dietetics. There are few things more important to your health and well-being than knowing...
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No Rich Child Left Behind
By SEAN F. REARDON Here’s a fact that may not surprise you: the children of the rich perform better in school, on average, than children from middle-class or poor families. Students growing up in...
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The Skills Gap: A Global Problem
As many countries celebrate International Workers’ Day tomorrow, let’s think about the importance of education in skills training for getting young people into work: http://bit.ly/12Xmrrw
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FAFSA Modernizes to Recognize LGBT Families
by Crosby Burns and David A. Bergeron SOURCE: AP/ Cheryl Senter Kim Pollock, 17, goes through college materials in her bedroom in Bedford, New Hampshire. FAFSA will soon start recognizing same-sex...
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Using education to sustain Africa’s growth
By JOHN FALLON The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report tells us that sustained economic growth across Africa is due, at least in part, to institutional reforms in the health and...
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Canada’s Approach to School Funding
by Juliana Herman SOURCE: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Over the past few decades, Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario—three of the four most populous provinces with student populations of a...
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Five Tips for Recent College Graduates!
It’s graduation time and thousands of college grads are hopeful about what the future holds. For some, that future is a vision they can see clearly and for others, it’s fuzzy and they are just...
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Reversing the trend of “separate and unequal” for community colleges.
Wick Sloane Attention (please), all 11 million community college students and 1,200 community college presidents. (I am screaming here.) Where are you? The Century Foundation started a revolution...
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African American Income, Education Growing Faster Than Expected
BY ATLANTA DAILY WORLD With an estimated $1 billion in buying power, African-American consumers are some of the most sought after in business. A new report from the Nielsen company suggests that...
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Are Schools Getting a Big Enough Bang for Their Education Technology Buck?
by Ulrich Boser SOURCE: AP/Elise Amendola A student unpacks a new iPad at Burlington High School in Burlington, Massachusetts. Endnotes and citations, as well as an appendix, are available in the PDF...
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America Is Raising A Generation Of Kids Who Can’t Think Or Write Clearly
MAX NISEN velkr0/Flickr The decades-long war against English and the other humanities has succeeded in many ways, which has had some unintended and very negative effects, according to a new report...
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55 Million Good Reasons to Go to College
By Lauren Weber As college costs keep rising and student-loan debt causes national consternation, more Americans are asking whether young people should bother with college. Here, at least, is one...
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