May 20 Prisoners might get access to Pell grants for first time in two decades By Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed The U.S. Department of Education is poised to announce a limited exemption to the federal ban on prisoners receiving Pell Grants to attend college while they are incarcerated. Continue reading
May 19 Threatened with closure, one historically black university charts a path to recovery By Kyla Calvert Mason When Darian James walks across the South Carolina State campus in her hometown of Orangeburg she sees a place where much of her life to this point has played out. It’s the place where she went to preschool through middle… Continue reading
May 18 Watch What’s the legacy of Head Start 50 years on? By PBS News Hour Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson announced the creation of Head Start, the early education program designed to support the needs of low-income children and get them ready for elementary school. The NewsHour’s April Brown explores the legacy and efficacy… Continue watching
May 17 Watch Will declining funding stunt scientific discovery in the U.S.? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 15 Watch 5:05 This high school trains Baltimore’s students to be artists By PBS News Hour At the Baltimore School for the Arts, students are admitted solely on their artistic potential; notable alumni of the pre-professional high school includes Jada Pinkett Smith and designer Christian Siriano. We meet some of the educators and current students who… Continue watching
May 14 Government opens public inquiry into potentially ‘harmful’ student loan servicing practices By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened a public inquiry Thursday into student loan servicing practices that it says can make paying back loans "stressful or harmful."… Continue reading
May 13 27 resources on education, from a reporter who’s covered it By John Merrow When my wife and I moved recently, the process forced me to dig through piles of stuff and discard what I didn’t care enough about to pack and then unpack. In the process I came across some really good stuff,… Continue reading
May 13 Grade levels could be a thing of the past in schools focused on competency By Anika Anand, Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Anika Anand and Ann Schimke on May 11, 2015 In a suburb just outside of Denver, Principal Sarah Gould stands outside a fifth-grade classroom at Hodgkins Elementary… Continue reading
May 12 Report: disproportionate number of black students being arrested in one Louisiana school district By Colleen Shalby For most children, swearing in school, throwing Skittles on a bus or walking around without a hallpass would get them sent to the principal’s office. But in the Jefferson Parish School District of Louisiana, many of these misbehaviors have… Continue reading
May 08 ACT to expand computer-based testing By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press WASHINGTON — ACT test takers take note: The No. 2 pencil is losing its cachet. Greater numbers of high school students will be able to take the college entrance exam on a computer next year. Continue reading