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Foreign enrollment grows in US grad schools: survey (AFP)

Published on November 9, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK (AFP) – First-time enrollment by international students in US graduate schools has seen a slight gain this year, reversing flat performance in the previous year, a survey showed Tuesday. A three percent increase was recorded between 2009 and 2010 in the number of foreign students starting at US higher education institutions, long the most dominant in the world, the Council of Graduate Schools reported. The previous year, with the US economy in recession and universities hit by global financial upheaval, growth in foreign students evaporated to zero, the first time without growth since the annual survey was launched from 2004

School brings farming to Big Apple (AP)

Published on November 5, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK – No one expects to find beets and carrots in a sliver of the South Bronx wedged between Metro-North Railroad tracks and a busy elevated highway.

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.

For-profit college stocks tumble on Apollo warning (AP)

Published on October 14, 2010 By

NEW YORK – Investors fled for-profit college stocks on Thursday after the sector’s bellwether predicted a 40-percent drop in student enrollment next quarter and withdrew its forecast for next year. The news chilled an industry facing increased government scrutiny over concerns about soaring student loan defaults

For gay youths, middle school can be toughest time (AP)

Published on October 12, 2010 By

NEW YORK – By the time she was in eighth grade, Rory Mann was so aware of the differences between her and other students that she couldn’t bear to enter the cafeteria.

Outlook for Chicago Board of Ed negative: S&P (Reuters)

Published on October 8, 2010 By

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The outlook for the Chicago Board of Education has turned negative, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said on Thursday, citing the state’s financial woes and the agency’s “limited ability” to raise more funds.

Ex-dean accused of making NYC students do chores (AP)

Published on October 1, 2010 By

NEW YORK – One St. John’s University student was ordered to make meals at a veteran administrator’s home. Another withdrew cash that was delivered to the same official at a casino.

Stop Trashing Teachers! (The Daily Beast)

Published on September 30, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK – Obama’s misguided policies and the overhyped doc Waiting For Superman have turned America against its teachers.

Calls for longer school years face budget reality (AP)

Published on September 28, 2010 By

NEW YORK – President Barack Obama’s call for a longer school day and year for America’s kids echoes a similar call he made a year ago to little effect, illustrating just how deeply entrenched the traditional school calendar is and how little power the federal government has to change it. Education reformers have long called for U.S.

Texas sues government to get $830 million of school aid (Reuters)

Published on September 23, 2010 By

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Texas on Thursday sued the Department of Education to get $830 million of extra aid that it was denied due to a fight over how the money would be spent, the governor and attorney general said on Thursday. Congress last month approved an extra $10 billion to help states save education jobs. Texas was the only state told that it would have to spend the same amount on its schools for three years in a row because it spent some of the $814 billion Congressional stimulus package on other programs