Jul 20 Turkey bans educators from traveling abroad after military coup attempt By Daniel Moritz-Rabson Turkey reportedly placed a temporary ban on professional scholars leaving the country for work-related purposes as part of its investigation into an attempted coup last week. Continue reading
Jul 15 Impact of Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling could reach K-12, higher ed By Mark Walsh, Education Week The controversial ruling on race-based admissions could have lasting and immediate effects everywhere, from the most selective colleges to neighborhood K-12 schools. Continue reading
Jul 06 In overture to Sanders, Clinton unveils college costs plan By Julie Pace, Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — In a gesture to her former Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton is announcing new steps aimed at tackling the rising cost of college tuition and the burden of student loan debt, including a three-month… Continue reading
Jul 05 Column: College planning now may mean less stress for seniors come fall By Shondra Carpenter As summer gets underway, rising seniors may want to think about getting a jump start on college planning. Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch 7:54 Breaking the school-to-prison pipeline for young offenders one class at a time By PBS News Hour In most states across America, education for teen offenders pales in comparison to what they'd receive on the outside. Just one third mandate that these kids meet the same standards as their public school counterparts. Massachusetts is one of them,… Continue watching
Jun 28 Watch 6:24 Innovative program helps even the playing field for poor students — and boost graduation rates By PBS News Hour For Georgia State’s Tyler Mulvenna, a $900 grant from an innovative retention program let him live on campus, work less and do what he came to do: study. The school, worried about abysmal graduation rates for poor students found, a… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch 6:15 Busy day at SCOTUS yields support for affirmative action, roadblock for executive orders By PBS News Hour The reduced Supreme Court weighed in on two politically charged cases Thursday. Justices confirmed the constitutionality of a college affirmative action program, but deadlocked on President Obama’s executive action protecting millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation -- thus nullifying the… Continue watching
Jun 23 Supreme Court upholds Texas affirmative action program By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The University of Texas admissions program that takes account of race has survived another round at the Supreme Court. The justices on Thursday upheld the Texas program by a 4-3 vote. Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch 2:34 On the House floor, a very personal rebuke of the Stanford rapist’s sentence By PBS News Hour While the Capitol Hill debate over gun control has dominated headlines since the Orlando shooting, it’s hardly the only issue on lawmakers’ minds. The light sentence Stanford swimmer Brock Turner received for raping an unconscious woman has also struck a… Continue watching
Jun 22 Column: How an epidemic of grade inflation made A’s average By Vikram Mansharamani Grade inflation — no, hyperinflation — is running rampant in American higher education. A recent study revealed that 42 percent of four-year college grades are A’s, and 77 percent are either A’s or B’s. Continue reading