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Student body president in CA is illegal immigrant (AP)

Published on November 18, 2010 By rohit

FRESNO, Calif. – The popular student body president at California State University, Fresno has publicly revealed a personal detail he long sought to keep secret: He is an illegal immigrant

Man sentenced to life for NJ schoolyard killings (AP)

Published on November 5, 2010 By

NEWARK, N.J.

Sector Snap: Shares of for-profit schools tumble (AP)

Published on November 4, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK – Shares of for-profit schools dove Thursday after a seemingly routine program review by the Department of Education reawakened fears of greater oversight — and lower profits — in the sector. Several analysts also sounded warnings, concerned about their ability to sign up new students and access government-backed financial aid due to increased scrutiny. Apollo Group Inc., which owns the University of Phoenix, the country’s largest for-profit higher education chain, said on Thursday that the DOE is launching a review of how Phoenix administers federal financial aid.

Surprise Cause of College Price Hikes: Midnight Pizza (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on November 1, 2010 By

It isn’t just college tuition that’s rising crazily. There’s growing evidence that the prices of many other everyday items, such as hamburgers, are rising faster on college campuses than they are in the rest of the economy.

Federal Grants, Tax Breaks Help Reduce Tuition Pain (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on October 28, 2010 By rohit

Recent–and possibly temporary–improvements to federal financial aid and tax benefits have cut the tuition price most full-time students are actually paying for college this year to levels lower than they’ve been over most of the last decade, the College Board reported today. Although the average published in-state tuition for full-time students at public universities rose by $470 to an average of $7,610 for the fall of 2010, the typical student ended up paying only $1,540 out of pocket. That’s a $400 increase over 2009, but lower than the $2,000-or-so average net price (after controlling for inflation) that students paid annually in the 10 years prior to that, the College Board found

Watchdog: Education foundations not doing enough (AP)

Published on October 27, 2010 By

SEATTLE – A philanthropic watchdog group is hoping to light a fire under charitable foundations that support education by releasing a report Wednesday that points out how few of them focus enough attention on helping the most needy students. The study by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy said that only 11 percent of American foundations devoted at least half their grants to programs that benefit vulnerable students. It looked at 672 foundations that gave at least $1 million to educational causes from 2006 to 2008.

Live Chat: IE Business School Admissions (BusinessWeek)

Published on October 26, 2010 By rohit

Chat: Oct. 28 at noon EDT Guest: Lisa Bevill, director of international MBA admissions at IE Business School IE Business School (IE Full-Time MBA Profile), which is based in Madrid, accepted 31 percent of the 2,433 applicants to the full-time MBA program in 2009. If you’d like to be among those who snag a seat at IE, you don’t want to miss our next live chat event on Oct.

Study: school buses safe enough without seat belts (AP)

Published on October 26, 2010 By rohit

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – School buses are safe enough without seat belts and students in many cases ignore a requirement to wear them, according to a study in Alabama released Monday that found the straps would save the life of about one child every eight years. The study was ordered by Alabama Gov.

Ga. school district wins $1 million Broad prize (AP)

Published on October 19, 2010 By

ATLANTA – Georgia’s largest school system has won the nation’s top prize in public education, which will provide $1 million in college scholarships for needy students in the district. Gwinnett County Public Schools snagged the Broad Prize for Urban Education, an award the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation gives annually to urban districts that show the most gains in student performance and closing minority achievement gaps. It’s the second year in a row the 150,000-student district was nominated for the prize announced Tuesday.

Flunking His Midterms? (The Daily Beast)

Published on October 15, 2010 By

NEW YORK – Obama’s ambitious education agenda is in peril, as his allies face firing at the polls in November. Dana Goldstein on the shaky state of school reform. When Barack Obama was first elected president, his education agenda—deploying federal money to turn around failing schools, hold teachers accountable for student test scores, and open more charter schools—earned glowing reviews from Republicans on Capitol Hill.