Hundreds of thousands of teachers have lost their jobs in recent years. And as U.S. students go back to school amid a presidential campaign with clashing budget visions, President Barack Obama is sounding the alarm. Since since the end of the recession three years ago, 300,000 educators have lost their jobs — 7,000 in the last [...]
Two University of Southern California students have launched an Indiegogo campaign in hopes of raising $10,000 by Aug. 10 so Los Angeles Community High School will be able to reopen for the 2012-13 school year and continue to serve its 35 students. Located in Watts — an area that ranks among the worst in California in [...]
NEW YORK — Students took on more student-loan debt than they needed or could handle, during a borrowing boom from 2004 to 2008, largely due to relaxed borrowing standards set by private lenders, according to research from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and U.S. Department of Education released Friday. The students who took out those [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration unveiled plans Wednesday to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost U.S. students’ achievement in science, technology, engineering and math. The program to reward high-performing teachers with salary stipends is part of a long-term effort by President Barack Obama to encourage education in [...]
Longtime Washington school administrator Ethelda Burke has resigned from her post as Tukwila School District Superintendent due to an ongoing investigation into race discrimination complaints against her, the News Tribunereports. Nine district employees have alleged that 66-year-old Burke made racially insensitive remarks to them in the workplace. Two staff members at Showalter Middle School asserted she referred to [...]
Carrie Parker likes to say that her story isn’t a “typical homeless story.” It started with a teenager “knocking on my door, asking for a place to stay,” she said recently at her home in Adrian, Mich. The teenager was her ex-husband’s daughter and she’d run away. Parker decided to adopt her, but first she [...]
Once again this past few weeks, the ongoing education debate in the United States occupied the headlines, bylines and cable news scrolls. NBC launched its second annual “Education Nation Summit,” billed as a way “to engage the country in a solutions — focused conversation about the state of education in America.” Meanwhile, President Obama, approaching [...]
Last week started off with the eighth Republican primary debate of the year, on Monday night. According to my own count, there were 15 questions (and answers) on tax reform, 2 on energy and jobs, one heated back-and-forth on health care, 12 questions and responses on immigration, 5 on the home-mortgage crisis, 3 on the [...]
After the host announced that student debt in the U.S. topped $1 trillion, columnist Nicholas Kristof told CNN this morning that “Tertiary education in the U.S. is broken.” Sal Khan explained how the old formula — get a degree, get a good job, have a good life — is breaking down. More people are attempting [...]
At a recent dinner date with French friends, mostly young graduates, the discussion centered on the tough process of entering today’s competitive workforce. My dinner companions all shared one thing in particular: a rather bleak outlook on their future, and little sense of control over the outcomes of this strenuous job search process. It was [...]
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