The discussion about how much tuition Colorado college students will pay next fall kicks off in earnest on Friday, the deadline for state colleges and universities to submit tuition flexibility plans to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.
A new state law allows colleges to raise resident undergraduate tuition as much as 9 percent a year for each of the next five school years. And, institutions that want larger increases can request permission to do so from CCHE. (Prior to the law the legislature set tuition increase caps every spring when it prepared the annual state
New York City is releasing its annual report cards for every public elementary and middle school tomorrow, and though this event is usually the focus of the week’s news cycle, city officials are trying to keep the release quiet.
Last year, when 97 percent of elementary and middle schools received an A or B on their progress reports,
There are only a couple of books I’ve read in the past year that have radically changed my way of thinking about things. Fresh on the heels of the co-option of the rhetoric of the open education movement by for-profit interests I read The Shock Doctrine, and it suddenly brought a bunch of things I had been struggling with into clear relief.
Here’s the basic idea — slow
View full sizeTyler Clementi apparently posted a Facebook status saying "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry," after his roommate Dharun Ravi and his friend Molly Wei allegedly broadcast a sexual encounter between Clementi and another man. A Facebook tribute page to Clementi, pictured above, has been established.PISCATAWAY -- Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman who was allegedly had a sex encounter broadcast via a hidden video by his roommate Dharun Ravi and his friend Molly Wei, changed his Facebook status to "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry" on Sept. 22.
Clementi's car, cell phone and computer were found near the George Washington Bridge and his wallet was found on a bridge walkway, police have said. His body has not been found, but
State Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester is recommending the board of education place a Gloucester charter school on probation.
Chester says the trustees of the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School failed to manage the school effectively by not planning for construction delays and opening three weeks late.
Chester acknowledged that the school is open, however, and said
"Waiting for Superman" is the new film by documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, director of "An Inconvenient Truth," and it should be mandatory viewing for every member of Congress.
As a synopsis on the Fandango movie site says, this film "explores the tragic ways in which the American public education system is failing our nation's children. ..."
Not only do we see children and their parents on the edge of their seats during
I've spent the past four days immersed in public education. First in Texas, where I spoke with and listened to superintendents and school board members; then at Education Nation, a day-and-a-half event put on by NBC and sponsored by the University of Phoenix and some major foundations, and finally at the annual dinner where the McGraw Prize in Education is awarded.
Remember that classic western, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?" Just like the movie's title, I'm starting with the good. That would be the McGraw Prize, an annual black tie event I hadn't attended for five or six years. Last night three educators who are making a huge difference were honored, men who
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