News Briefs
May 6, 2008
Legislation would increase limits on how much borrowers can receive in federally subsidized student loans.
May 6, 2008
Company will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit, including a donation of $400,000 worth of tutoring for low-income students.
April 29, 2008
Concerns rising that the college loans available next fall will be smaller, more expensive.
April 29, 2008
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded $60 million in grants.
April 15, 2008
April 8, 2008
Review gives the federal Job Corps education and training program a “potentially positive” rating for its effectiveness at getting participants to earn a high school diploma or GED.
April 4, 2008
Officials overseeing the Advanced Placement program have announced that they intend to drop AP classes and exams in four subject areas, in a pullback expected to affect about 12,500 students and 2,500 teachers worldwide.
April 1, 2008
With some states needing to slash billions of dollars from their budgets this fiscal year, K-12 isn’t the only area of education targeted for spending cuts.
March 24, 2008
A program that lets high school juniors and seniors earn college credit while training for hightech manufacturing jobs faces a shortage of interested students.
March 21, 2008
With an anxious eye on the troubled credit markets, Congress is urging the Department of Education to prepare for the possibility that families might face problems in securing student loans for higher education.
The findings from this year's report underscore that to earn a decent wage in the United States, young people need to anticipate completing at least some college.