Online education is becoming commonplace. About 5.3 million U.S. students took at least one online course in fall 2013, according to a recent study. Myth 1: Online education is easy. “At reputable institutions, students have to complete the same material as in-person, except they also have to really manage their time because online no one is reminding them when assignments or projects are due …
The schools of education not only have a poor academic reputation but emphasize rote memorization and conformity to the orthodoxy. That’s not a recipe for attracting our brightest minds.
Senator Jon Tester today introduced the Veterans Education Empowerment Act, a bill that would reauthorize a Department of Education grant program to help institutions of higher education establish, maintain, and improve veteran student centers – dedicated spaces on a college or university campus that provide student veterans or eligible family members with a meeting space and centralized office …
After years of bipartisan language urging Congress to seize on “common goals” and “shared interests” to revise a dysfunctional federal education law, the Obama administration appears to be taking the gloves off. In a conference call with the press this week, the Department of Education slammed the House Republicans’ proposed bill to reauthorize the Elementary…
DreamBox Learning today announced the appointment of education expert Gina Burkhardt to its advisory board. Burkhardt brings more than 25 years of forward-thinking, research-based education leadership to DreamBox Learning’s award-winning curriculum and Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ technology to meet student learning needs in grades K-8.
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American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) is set to report fourth-quarter fiscal 2014 results on Feb 26, after the market closes.
These Brooklyn kids aren’t learning their Oy-B-C’s. The battle over secular education for ultra-Orthodox Jews has flared in the Hasidic enclave of Williamsburg after a reform group unveiled a massive…
When Patricia Samuels finished her bachelor's degree in special education back in 2007, she knew she had more classes in store. The Orlando, Florida resident wanted to work with students with disabilities, but felt like she didn't get enough course work on the subject in undergrad. So she looked for a master's program with a focus on special education — and one she could complete while juggling …
Education Corporation of America , which operates private, accredited colleges across the U.S., has reached an agreement with Kaplan Higher Education to acquire its 38 Kaplan College Campuses in an all-stock transaction that will give Kaplan a preferred equity interest in ECA.