Big man shortage on campus
6.16.10 - Charlotte Allen - It's well-known that there's a severe gender imbalance in undergraduate college populations: About 57 percent of undergrads these days are female and just 43 percent male, the culmination of a trend in which significantly fewer young men than young women either graduate from high school or enroll in
Black students trail white classmates in gaining a first
6.16.10 - Black students are more than three times less likely to be awarded a first-class university degree than their white classmates, a major study has revealed.
States Seek Federal Waivers to Cut Special Education
6.16.10 - Faced with budget woes, a handful of states look to a little-used legal provision to offer an escape hatch from federal spending mandates. ...
Chicago School Board opens door to 35 in a class
6.16.10 - Chicago School Board members Tuesday tackled their worst fiscal crisis since Mayor Daley's 1995 school takeover by granting school officials the power to raise class sizes to up to 35 students for the next two years. ...
U.S. Education Dept. Delays Rules on For-Profit Colleges
6.16.10 - The Education Department said Tuesday that it had split off and delayed a decision on the most controversial part of proposed new student-aid regulations - the treatment of for-profit college programs whose graduates do not earn enough to repay their loans. ... |
