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President Trump’s Budget Takes Aim At Student Loan Programs

Posted by Eileen French on May 24th, 2017 // No Comments

President Trump’s 2018 budget, released Tuesday, proposes considerable changes to federal student loan programs. The budget contains three main proposals aimed at student loans that would apply to loans that were issued on...

Big Changes Coming To Federal Student Loan System

Posted by Eileen French on May 20th, 2017 // No Comments

Students at colleges and universities will soon see changes to how their federal student loans are managed. A plan recently announced by the Education Department is intended to simplify a federal student loan servicing system...

Supreme Court Debates Public School Responsibilities To Disabled Students

Posted by Eileen French on Jan 12th, 2017 // No Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday on whether federal law requires public schools to provide more than the bare minimum in special services for children with disabilities. The lower courts have disagreed about...

Federal Government Set To Forgive $108 Billion In Student Loan Debt

Posted by Eileen French on Nov 30th, 2016 // No Comments

A report recently released by the Government Accountability Office projects the full cost of income-based repayment plans for student loan debt for the first time. According to the report, the federal government will forgive...

LinkedIn Tackles Salary Transparency With New Tool

Posted by Eileen French on Nov 2nd, 2016 // No Comments

LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) users can now compare their salaries to those of their professional peers using a new tool developed by the social network. LinkedIn Salary is a new portal and tracker to collect and analyze salaries globally....

Wells Fargo And Amazon End Student Loan Partnership

Posted by Eileen French on Sep 1st, 2016 // No Comments

Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) have announced an end to the partnership they formed to offer discounted student loans. Wells Fargo Education Financial Services, the bank’s student lending wing, had agreed...

Borrowers Wary Of Refinancing Student Loan Debt

Posted by Eileen French on Aug 17th, 2016 // No Comments

Millennials are increasingly facing large amounts of student debt. According to data from the Federal Reserve, the average American under 35 now has $17,200 of student debt. That is a 182 percent increase from 1995. Data from...

Free College Tuition Ideas Popular With Many Americans

Posted by Eileen French on Aug 9th, 2016 // No Comments

Nearly two-thirds of Americans are in favor of free college tuition for students. According to a new survey conducted by Bankrate.com, 62 percent think tuition at public colleges and universities should be free for all students....

Missouri Education Officials Celebrate Potential In Review of Financial Education Standards

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jul 26th, 2016 // No Comments

Barely a month following the Missouri State Board of Education approved a regulatory review of personal finance learning standards across state schools, local education officials now hope that the overhaul will assist in preparing...

Does Higher Education Mean Lower Heart Failure Risk?

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jul 22nd, 2016 // No Comments

There are obvious benefits to higher education. Of course, the theory is that more education—specialized education—leads to a better career and higher income. But with studious knowledge also comes an expanded perspective...

Montana State Officials Propose New State Science Standards

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jul 18th, 2016 // No Comments

Education officials in Montana just proposed new science standards last week emphasizing local roots as a major foundation for them. The new science standards, explains Montana Office of Public Instruction director of content...

Are Tennessee Schools Setting the Bar for Technology Equity in Education?

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jul 13th, 2016 // No Comments

It is no surprise that American children need to learn about technology as part of their primary and secondary education. The world is changing and technology is leading the charge; and American children are actually not as...

Google Launches New Education Apps And Services

Posted by Eileen French on Jun 27th, 2016 // No Comments

This morning at the ISTE conference, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) unveiled a series of products and tools aimed at the education sector. Google’s Chromebooks have become the go to computer system for educational purposes in the United...

Amazon Launches Inspire Digital Education Tool Sharing Program

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jun 27th, 2016 // No Comments

On Monday, Amazon launched a new online education portal which makes thousands of free educational tools available to teachers. This includes handy worksheets and lesson plans; obviously the web giant’s biggest move towards...

Do College Graduates Get More Brain Tumors?

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jun 21st, 2016 // No Comments

It is a somewhat shocking and unusual question, sure, but a new study suggests that this may be true. According to an analysis of medical data from more than 4.3 million Swedish residents, those with a higher education or...

GAO Calls for Servicer Communication Overhaul to Improve Student Loan Health

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jun 20th, 2016 // No Comments

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released a report called “Federal Loans: Education Could Improve Direct Loan Program Customer Service and Oversight.” The June 15th report is part of the office’s...

The Oddly Complex For-Profit Higher Education Model

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jun 9th, 2016 // No Comments

The decades leading into the 21st century showed great promise for young people looking to make their marks in the world. A college education held the key to many opportunities that were supposed to open up after walking down...

New US DoE Report Shows massive Racial Disparities In Public Education

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jun 9th, 2016 // No Comments

On Tuesday, the US Department of Education released a collection of data tracking roughly 50 million students from almost every single one of the country’s 95,000-some public schools. This is the most recent installment...

Chronic Absence A Huge Problem In American Schools

Posted by Eileen French on Jun 8th, 2016 // No Comments

Chronic absence from school is a bigger problem than previously thought. A new report released by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights shows that a staggering number of students are chronically absent...

Does Education Level Affect Life Expectancy At Birth?

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on Jun 7th, 2016 // No Comments

According to an insightful new study published in the International Journal of Innovation and Learning, the average level of education in any given country correlates somewhat directly with life expectancy at birth. Experts...

DeVry Education Group Making Changes After Lawsuits

Posted by Eileen French on May 25th, 2016 // No Comments

DeVry Education Group (NYSE:DV), the parent company of the for-profit university, has been trying to revamp its image after becoming the subject of several investigations into its recruitment practices. The company is now facing...

Sesame Street and IRC Team Up To Bring More Education To Refugee Children

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on May 24th, 2016 // No Comments

Jim Henson productions have been entertaining and educating children for decades. Now it looks like his beloved Muppet characters from the hit television show, Sesame Street will be taking their particular brand of “edu-tainment”...

Can Michigan Recover its Failing Education System?

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on May 19th, 2016 // No Comments

It is no big secrets that American schools are struggling but in Michigan, K-12 students continue to fall behind the schools across the rest of the United States. This, of course, not only threatens the future lives of these...

When States Cut University Funding, What’s A School To Do?

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on May 19th, 2016 // No Comments

A Washington-based policy institute has recently published a report which describes a grim outlook on nationwide spending on higher education. The report describes that reduced per-student spending by specific states has contributed...

Is Education a Civil Right or an Elite Privilege?

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on May 17th, 2016 // No Comments

Such is the debate in England right now, following an announcement, yesterday, that they government plans to permit elite universities to raise tuition rates. Again. British students are already struggling to cough up the £9,000...

Title IX and Transgender Students

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on May 17th, 2016 // No Comments

On Friday of last week, May 13, 2016, the Obama Administration issued a new directive to clarify how and why sexual discrimination protections apply in schools throughout state governments. Basically, the directive states because...

Falling Interest Rates Great For Student Loan Borrowers

Posted by Eileen French on May 12th, 2016 // No Comments

Students that need to borrow money for college, and their parents, just got some good news about interest rates for student loans. The interest rates for federal student loans will be historically low for the 2016-2017 school...

Dropbox Offers Colleges New Cloud Storage Option

Posted by Eileen French on May 11th, 2016 // No Comments

File-hosting service Dropbox has created a new option to entice more colleges and universities into joining its service. The company believes that the new offering, called Dropbox Education, will help students and faculty members...

Should Schools Let Our Kids Be Kids?

Posted by Carolyn Dwyer on May 7th, 2016 // No Comments

The education system in Europe is going through a bit of a transition. While public educators continue to work on new ways to standardize education, some parents groups are advocating that we should “Let Our Kids be Kids.”...

Personalized Learning Begins Takeover Of The Education World

Posted by Eileen French on May 6th, 2016 // No Comments

Over the past few years, digital content has become a preferred way for the younger generations to receive information on a wide variety of subjects. Now, the preferences of today’s generation are fueling a paradigm shift...