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The New York Times
SchoolBook: City and Unions Square Off Over Hiring at 24 Struggling Schools
May 16, 2012, 6:40 a.m. The Department of Education goes to court on Wednesday to try to prevent delays in its effort to overhaul the teaching staffs at 24 struggling schools. City officials released legal papers on Tuesday responding to an attempt by th...
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Newsday
2 tax proposals may lower college costs
ALBANY -- Senate Republicans Tuesday proposed a package of tax credits and tax deductions intended to lower the cost of a college education for middle-class families."We want to allow students to make investments in their future," said Sen. Kenneth LaVal...
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Philadelphia Daily News
College debt a ticking time bomb — or two, or three
First things first: Congress should extend the current 3.4 percent interest rate on student loans now. If it doesn’t act by July 1, the rate will double to 6.8 percent and the average student borrower will owe $1,000 more each year. Senate Republic...
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Hechinger Foundation
The worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City
For 10 months, Carolyn Abbott waited for the other shoe to drop. In April 2011, Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a citywide gifted-and-talented school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, received som...
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Time Magazine
Has Graduation Season Become the Most Depressing Time of Year?
College graduation used to be filled with hope and excitement. Lately, though, it seems as if the feeling most likely experienced while dressed in cap and gown is that of dread, with visions of a future burdened by unemployment, underemployment, and stud...
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New America Media
Graduating College Student Speaks Ive Made a Huge Mistake
SAN FRANCISCO--As the temperatures begin to rise and summer descends on the city, another class is set to walk across the stage and into graduation. But what really waits for us after we cross that stage and remove the cap and gown? According to the Asso...
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Business Wire
Barnes & Noble NOOK Kids™ Titles Nominated in Best eBook Category at Cynopsis Kids !magination Awards
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that four of its exclusive NOOK Kids eBooks have been nominated to receive a Cynopsis Kids !magination A...
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LongIsland.com
Four LI High Schools RAnked Among Nation's Best
Four Long Island high schools have been ranked among the top 100 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its fourth edition of Best High Schools. The rankings identify the leading public schools that prepare students for college success. To determin...
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The New York Times
Degrees of Debt: Colleges Begin to Confront Higher Costs and Students’ Debt
Andrew Spear for The New York Times E. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University, says that public colleges and universities need to devise a new business model to pay for the costs of education, beyond sticking students with higher tuition and...
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The George Washington Hatchet
Justin Peligri: Keeping counseling affordable
The ongoing construction on campus hasn’t been the only example of change at GW. The University Counseling Center has experienced its own fair share of remodeling this year. The UCC has seen changes including the replacement of the center’s director, mul...
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The Staunton News Leader
SWAT awards two college scholarships
Disa McPherson's annual yield of tomatoes, lima beans, cucumbers, corn, cantaloupe and green beans...- 10:41 pm ROANOKE Bailey Browning has a knack for fundraising.- 10:38 pm WAYNESBORO Police departments often end up with stuff nobody claims now, Way...
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The USF Oracle
Republican filibuster of student loans comes at bad time
With Americans owing more than $1 trillion in student loan debt, the Senate’s filibuster last week of a Democratic proposal to freeze student loan interest rates could not come at a worse time. While Democrats propose to fund the difference in interest r...
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New York Post
Exactly why is college worth it today?
At a debate last Tuesday in downtown Manhattan put on by Intelligence Squared US, writer Malcolm Gladwell moved the audience to support a ban on college football; his best argument was, roughly, why is a dangerous sport like football tied to higher educa...
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BlogHer
Why Aren't We Also Mad at Colleges for Increasing Tuition?
The New York Times finally got on the bandwagon of reporting on student loan debt as the interest rate on student loans are set to double on July 1st, from 3.4% to 6.8%. I've talked about this issue a lot on my blog (here, here, and here) because it is a...
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Anchorage Daily News
Student debt mounts as college costs continue to rise
"If anything ever happened, God forbid, that is my debt also," said Griffith's mother, Marlene Griffith. Griffith, 23, wouldn't seem a perfect financial fit for a college that costs nearly $50,000 a year. Her father, a paramedic, and mother, a preschool...
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