New Orleans The Obama Administration is in the drafting stages of a proposal to link federal student financial aid to key accountability and affordability standards for higher educational institutions. By 2015, the proposal would rate institutions by measures including tuition costs, graduation rates, debt load and earnings of graduates, and, thankfully, even the percentage of …
Category: Education
The New Medici’s: Private Support of Public Spaces
Little Rock The new Children’s Library in Little Rock, where the fundraiser was held, was something of a startling edifice planted in the lower income neighborhood that we used to call Woodrow to Pine and Oak Forest, only blocks from the old Highland Court housing project. There were amazing parts to the building. It had …
The Coming End of Textbooks in Los Angeles, Nairobi and Beyond
Toronto Colleges and universities increasingly are requiring students to show up for the first day of classes with their own computers or iPads, just like years ago standard equipment might have included a tablet, pens, pencils, and a lunch pail. Los Angeles Unified School District, the 2nd largest school district in the country after New …