While several business sectors are still recovering from the financial crisis of 2008, colleges and universities are reportedly set to face further "substantial" economic challenges.
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) launched a new initiative to provide students the access to "great educators." The new program, known as the "Excellent Educators for All Initiative," is aimed to help states and school districts with a three-part system.
Low expectations from teachers, an absence of parental involvement and irregular access to a home computer contribute to high dropout rates and school disengagement. According to surveys, disconnection at home and in school feeds a significant achievement gap.
Story time just got a lot easier for 10,000 Southern California teachers and their elementary-grade students. FarFaria and Education.com recently teamed up to provide a year of access to FarFaria's ever-growing collection of more than 700 children's books for kids ages 2-9.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the current House Republican whip, could be the next House Majority Leader after the "stunning" primary election defeat of Eric Cantor in the Virginia 7th District primary on Tuesday. McCarthy, who has already received Cantor's endorsement, has yet to confirm his intentions for the second-rank position in the House of Representatives, but he will need to deal with several hot-topic issues regularly being debated.
More than any others, children in immigrant households are the least likely to enroll their children in federal and state preschool programs, due mainly to language and literacy barriers.
Fresh out of college and new to New York City, young people arrive with the expectation of "Sex in the City" and "Glee"-style adventures, guided solely by the hot lights of the city and a sense of whimsy. Instead, they are confronted with the high cost of NYC's living and unshakable college student loan debt, which often forces them to pit financial obligations against one another.
Two of the three school districts that are receiving gifts from the Zuckerbergs and their foundation, Startup: Education, are largely dominated by Latino students. These students will soon benefit from finance, computers, connectivity and teacher training. The money will also go toward boosting funding for science studies and English proficiency.
Even with all of the discussions and debates among policy makers over the last few years about immigration reform and the continual deportation of the immigrant community, immigration isn't the most important issue to the Latinos. In fact, Latino leaders say they believe that the hard-eyed focus on immigration reform is "crowding out other issues facing the Latino community." So what really concerns Latinos?
A revised contract agreement that teachers at a Catholic school in Cincinnati are required to sign in order to continue teaching has several staff members outraged.
A new report from the America's Promise Alliance and its Center for Promise at Tufts University, "Don't Call Them Dropouts: Understanding the Experiences of Young People Who Leave High School before Graduation," paints a detailed portrait of this demographic.
Executive compensation at top-tier public research universities increased 14 percent, between 2009 and 2012, and increased by a third for presidents, equaling a bump to nearly $1,000,000 in annual compensation. The ballooning of salaries for presidents at the top 25 highest-paid public-research university has coincided with student debt growth and faculty disenfranchisement for the last number of years.
The fact that low-income students continue to face an uphill battle, as the rest of the nation's students flourish, is obvious to Bill Admans, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Minds Matter, a tutoring and mentoring nonprofit. In a conversation with Latin Post, Admans talked about the status of low-income students and the ways Minds Matter has worked to improve conditions for them on a local and national level.
The Supreme Court decision Brown v. Boad of Education of Topeka paved the way for school integration. Now, 60 years later, a new report assesses the status of school segregation in America and explores the transformation of the nation's school population since the civil rights era.
60 years after the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision that segregation by race is unconstitutional, segregation is still widespread in public schools across the nation.
Finland is already known for having the highest quality of life in the world despite suffering through intense cold spells and lengthy periods of darkness.
