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Recently, Education Weeks Living in Dialogue blog featured a number of provocative posts on Teach For America. Phil Kovacs, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, penned a guest post that offered a sharp critique of TFA and the research supporting its efforts. There was also an impassioned back-and-forth between two TFA corps members [...]
Unless Congress inervenes, college will get costlier for millions of low- and middle-income student loan recipients starting next fall. The fixed interest rate on Stafford federal subsidized loans, held by almost 8 million undergraduates, is set to double July 1, a few months before start of the next school year. University of Florida freshman Griffin [...]
Charles D. Johnson, Director of the Public Policy Research Institute (PPRI) at Texas A&M University, was a featured speaker at the conference “Mental Health and the Family” held Feb. 28, at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar. Sponsored by the Doha International Institute for Family Studies and Development (DIIFSD), the conference addressed the [...]
When No Child Left Behind was first created, everyone thought it would be a great thing and would really accomplish its goal of getting every child in the USA up to par in the fields of math and reading by 2014. However, with the deadline drawing closer and closer, it is becoming obvious that many [...]
Same song, different verse as the Texas Tech Red Raiders fell 72-54 against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, Wednesday. Here are a couple of storylines out of the game: 1. It was a game past the 10-minute mark of the second half The Red Raiders trailed 55-52 with about seven minutes to play but then [...]