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Tips for financing higher education
12 hours ago ago from us endowment
If you're a parent wondering how you are funded for the study, and finally enter retirement, you are not alone. The College Board, the average cost of a public university of $ 12,800 for the state of registration, meals and lodging. Add a $ 6400 for the state of the class. Private schools average $ 26,700. Multiplied by four years and the number of children and to have a reason for concern. You need to learn the rules of the college-financing ...
Related contentA Paella of Links
14 hours ago ago from .
It was a busy weekend (getting a stomach bug also didn't help) so I was a bit behind getting to some of the links I found interesting over the last day or so. By the way, don't you just LOVE paella? Enjoy! Recruiting Hispanic College Students In Espanol A big shout out to Bryn Mawr College , a women's liberal arts college outside of Philly, for launching a Spanish version of its Web site. A few other universities around the country ...
Related content‘Evenings with L-R Professors’
1 day ago ago from LRU News
Lenoir-Rhyne University will present Evenings with L-R Professors, a new outreach program for area high school teachers, beginning in February. Teachers will have a unique opportunity to work with colleagues and L-R faculty to explore ideas that enhance classroom teaching. The programs cover a variety of topics relevant both to high school learning and to preparing students for college. The monthly seminars are offered on Tuesdays at 4-6 ...
Related contentPalm Beach State commended for Hispanic outreach
22 hours ago ago from South Florida Education Blog
Palm Beach State College is doing a good job of serving Hispanic students, a new report suggests. The national group Excelencia in Education commends the school, formerly known as Palm Beach Community College, for its mentoring programs, diversity awareness, cultural training for support staff, accessible financial aid information and efforts to improve retention and graduation of Latino students. The report examined “emerging Hispanic ...
Related contentEarly college draws at-risk students
7 hours ago ago from Joanne Jacobs
Early-college high schools are helping high-risk students combine high school with community college, reports the New York Times. Students can earn a high school diploma and up to two years of college credit in five years. “Last year, half our early-college high schools had zero dropouts, and that’s just unprecedented for North Carolina, where only 62 percent of our high school students graduate after four years,” said Tony Habit, ...
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'What Works' in Education: Vouchers
20 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget calls for a 9% increase in federal education spending, and he has famously said that the money should go to "what works" in education. So he ought to take another look at Milwaukee, where the nation's oldest and largest publicly funded school voucher program is showing academic gains. A report released last week by School Choice Wisconsin, an ...
Related contentRichard (RJ) Eskow: A College Test for Washington: Help Young People in Need, or Kowtow to Bank Lobbyists?
17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
It should be, as the President once called it, a "no-brainer": Overhaul our broken system for distributing Federal student loans. Stop giving banks undeserved profits for administering these loans (an estimated $80 billion over ten years), since they take no risk and have managed the program poorly. Make sure our money goes directly to the young people that need them the most. Who could be against that? In fact, the student loan reform bill ...
Related contentRick Ayers: Constructing the Achievement Gap
19 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The problem of the "achievement gap" in public education is the most vexing problem on the agenda today. Many people look at this gap -- in grades and test scores between people of different races and family incomes -- as a mysterious and intractable problem with no discernable solution. I disagree. In reality, the gap is something that is constructed and reproduced year after year -- by the conscious and unconscious actions of many people. ...
Related contentMichael Laracy: Ending Poverty through Education
21 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Washington, DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee just penned the following commentary, which originally appeared at Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity . Rhee argues that education can be the solution to poverty, and that recent successes show - that if we're committed enough - we can create real opportunities for low-income kids. -- Michael Laracy "I remember in elementary school - did you guys do this? - switching clothes every ...
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