May 10, 2012
Last week, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) released a report titled, Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Comm
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May 10, 2012
I couldn't help but think as I was sitting in a packed conference room at the Business Civic Leadership Center’s (BCLC) national conference last week, that it's amazing we still have an education problem in this country.
May 10, 2012
One in two young college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed according to an Associated Press analysis:
April 6, 2012
What do you get when you take 10,000 high school students from 500 schools and transform the conventional way of learning? The answer may surprise you.
March 29, 2012
On Monday, the Lumina Foundation released the report, A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education, which provides updated progress on their “Big Goal” of 60% of our nation holdin
March 23, 2012
Representative Tim Bishop of New York issued a column last week stating his opposition to the “Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act” (H.R. 2117).
February 17, 2012
In 2010, New York State promised to implement tough teacher evaluations in order to qualify for federal Race to the Top funds. Thursday, as the deadline to strike a deal was about to expire, the teachers’ unions, the state education commissioner, and Governor Andrew Cuomo reached an agreement.
February 16, 2012
Included in President Obama’s FY 2013 budget is a new program, called “The Community College to Career Fund.” The new fund would spend $8 billion with a goal of training two million workers for a new career.
February 9, 2012
In the absence of congressional action to update the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), President Obama announced that his administration will waive the central accountability provisions of NCLB.