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...
by Dan Waldman | Oct 19, 2016 | Education, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — The key to ending police brutality and quell racial tensions in the country is through civic education, Secretary of Education John King said Wednesday. Speaking at the National Press Club, King said promoting “democracy was one of the...
by Jason Mast | Oct 17, 2016 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Education Department announced Monday that the high school graduation rate reached an all-time high in 2015, crediting President Barack Obama’s $4 billion Race to the Top school reform program and nearly $6 billion pre-school initiative. But...
by Anna Waters | Oct 4, 2016 | Education, Featured
FARMVILLE, Va. – During Tuesday vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence, many Longwood University students were hoping to hear detailed plans to deal with mounting college debt. They were disappointed—the issue came up only...
by Jason Mast | Sep 21, 2016 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — House Republicans accused the Obama administration of attempting to subvert the law and also congressional authority Wednesday during a hearing on a new law that replaced No Child Left Behind. Democrats charged that Republicans were trying to...
by Natalie Escobar | Mar 20, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON— A half-century after passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act and in the wake of federal reforms in public education, test scores for black and white students’ scores do not look much different than those in the 1960s. In 1966, a government-commissioned...
by Natalie Escobar and Sabrina Rodriguez | Mar 14, 2016 | Education, Topics
WASHINGTON– Acting Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is officially dropping the “acting” from his job title. King was confirmed as Education Secretary Monday night in a 49-40 Senate vote, following months of stark criticism by lawmakers of President...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Mar 8, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday the U.S. has made progress in improving education for girls in other developing countries, but call on private industry as well as the government to do more. At an International Women’s Day event at Union...
