Education News

April 16, 2007
Statement on College Loan Scandal: 'Another Sign That Our Debt-for-Diploma, Profit-Dominated Federal Student Aid System Needs Serious Reform'

From Ascribe Newsfeed: "The recent investigation by the New York Attorney General has revealed yet another deep flaw with our current system of federal financial aid. "With the revelations that financial aid offices promoted certain student loan issuers in exchange...

Kennedy Wants Lenders Blocked From Data

From washingtonpost.com : The chairman of the Senate education committee urged the Bush administration yesterday to block student loan companies from accessing a national database that holds confidential information on tens of millions of students. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), came...

April 10, 2007
Family Involvement in Elementary School Children's Education

Harvard Family Research Project: During their elementary school years, children undergo important developmental changes. Their reasoning becomes more logical, their attention gets more adaptable, their perspective taking grows more sophisticated, and their reading and math skills blossom. As in the...

April 05, 2007
New Regulations to More Accurately Assess Students With Disabilities

Department or Education News Release: The new regulations provide states and schools with greater flexibility by allowing them to more accurately evaluate these students' academic progress and tailor instruction based on individual needs. "Through No Child Left Behind, we're continuing...

Schools Bring Opportunity to Both Students and Communities

Local Initiatives Support Corporation: Public charter schools have not only proven to be a critical factor in helping inner-city students access better education, but they have also acted as a stabilizing effect on their surrounding neighborhoods. An active school that...

April 03, 2007
Education Secretary Leads National Higher Education Transformation Summit

From Education Newsfeed: The summit focuses on action items around five key recommendations by the Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education to improve college access, affordability and accountability. The Commission's findings were the basis for the Secretary's action...

Teaching Tool Plays on Chemistry Between Students, Gaming

From Ascribe Newsfeed: Two Purdue University professors have teamed up to create a way to teach scientific concepts that relies more on 3-D technology and aliens than on beakers and books. Carlos Morales, an associate professor of computer graphics technology,...

March 28, 2007
Online Portal to Extensive Social Work Content Launches on First World Social Work Day

From Ascribe Newsfeed: Web searchers looking for information and resources about numerous social service and psychosocial topics will now have the entire social work profession at their fingertips. In celebration of the first ever World Social Work Day, the National...

Financing College, Importance of Postsecondary Education the Focus of March TV Show

From Education Newsfeed: Tips for parents on paying for college, as well as a discussion on why postsecondary education is so vital to career success will be the focus of the March edition of the U.S. Department of Education's TV...

March 26, 2007
School Achievement, Perceptions of Ability and Interest Change as Children Age

Child Development: Children in early grades may like a subject in which they don't feel very competent, or they may feel competent in a subject in spite of poor grades. But by the end of high school, children generally feel...