by Caroline Vakil | Feb 27, 2018 | Education, Featured, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON — Regina Montoya, a senior at California State University, Sacramento, is managing a busy schedule this semester: two internships and a full course load. But she used to face a very different challenge: when the dorms were closed, she was homeless....
by Rachel Frazin | Feb 21, 2018 | Education
When Amirius Clinton saw white nationalist flyers at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb last fall, he said he was scared. The signs posted around the campus an hour west of Chicago had simple messages: One just featured the name of the group – Identity Evropa...
by Syd Stone | Feb 21, 2018 | Education
WASHINGTON — Elementary and high school curricula must include civics education now more than ever, former Florida governor Bob Graham said referencing statistics proving historically low political engagement among young people. “This is a critically important issue,”...
by Rachel Frazin | Feb 15, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – The U.S. faces a shortage of workers with technical skills, a gap that could be filled with more access to training, experts said at a congressional hearing. The House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing focused on the importance of community...
by Stavros Agorakis | Feb 6, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Tensions flared over college affordability at a Senate hearing Tuesday, with some lawmakers calling for more regulation on the issue. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee’s priority should be to help the 40 million students with...
by Caroline Vakil | Feb 1, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — High schools should provide more educational and career-related opportunities to students to help them transition better into college or the workforce, former Education Secretary John B. King Jr. said Thursday. “We give the kids who need the most...
by Stavros Agorakis | Jan 25, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Serving students without college degrees is among the key challenges in higher education, said members of the Senate panel during a hearing Thursday. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. said Congress needs to create an environment that fosters more innovation...
by Stavros Agorakis | Jan 18, 2018 | Education
WASHINGTON — Getting financial aid at American colleges is too complicated and should be simplified immediately to make it easier for low-income students to apply for the funds while also consolidating the confusing number of programs, the chairman of Senate Health,...
by Darby Hopper | Nov 28, 2016 | Education, Featured
BOULDER, Colo. — “Are potatoes a vegetable?” A fifth grade boy scanned his cafeteria at Foothill Elementary School, hoping a grown-up could provide the answer. It was an easy one for Laura Smith, who coordinates Boulder Valley School...
by Isabella Alvarenga | Nov 16, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — The next president must make education worldwide a priority in order to improve conditions in unstable regions of the world, according to global education experts. Rebecca Winthrop, director of Center for Universal Education at the Brookings...
by Eunice Lee | Nov 14, 2016 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Top education experts on Monday expressed concern about the future of higher education under a Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress. Terry Hartle, of the American Council on Education, speculated that the first four months of Congress...
by Jason Mast | Nov 7, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said fiscal policies worldwide work against women, especially in developing countries, but also endorsed reducing the U.S. wage gap throught mandatory paid parental leave and child care...
