McGraw Hill recently released a well-received infographic titled the Educational Assessment Landscape. It’s premise is: Assessments are a key component of all education systems and play a critical role in a student’s learning journey. By measuring student achievement and skill mastery, assessments help students learn, teacher improve instruction, administrators decide how to allocate resources, and policymakers…
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Bank On Student Loan Fairness Act
On JULY 1st, 2013, the interest rate on new Federally subsidized Student Loans will DOUBLE from 3.4% to 6.8% The Federal Government currently makes 36 cents in PROFIT from every dollar they loan a student for education. Bank On Student Loan Fairness Act I’ve written extensively on the dangers and my concern for the over…
New Game Changer for Higher Education: Minerva Project
I remember many years ago, the Arizona State University complained about students enrolling in their college but never going to class because they’d stay in their dorm rooms and take online courses. At the time, ASU had to reflect on whether this was something that was good or not. Fast forward several years later and…
Department of Education SWAT Team
With over a TRILLION DOLLARS in college debt (see: New Debt Slaves) and a 498% increase in tuition (since 1986), I was SHOCKED to see this story of Kenneth Wright from 2009. I wasn’t aware of this story when it first developed and was surprised to learn the Department of Education had its own SWAT…
10 Reasons For Going Back To College
Tell me one good job you can get without a college degree? Such was the question posed to me by a recruiter from one of our state colleges. I was eager to argue that many entrepreneurs, programmers, and other service industries did not require college degrees but, agreed that current competitive trends made college–or an…
Colleges Suing Their Own Students For Repayment
Colleges Suing Their Own Students For Repayment What happens when some of the most prestigious college graduates can’t get jobs to repay their loans… Yale Suing Former Students Shows Crisis in Loans to Poor Needy U.S. borrowers are defaulting on almost $1 billion in federal student loans earmarked for the poor, leaving schools such as Yale…