By Michael Stratford. The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced changes to how it pays the companies that manage student loan payments, responding to growing criticism that its oversight of those companies is inadequate. Officials have renegotiated the government’s contracts with the four main loan servicers, which together collect payments for tens of millions of federal student loan borrowers. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Freshmen all over the country met with advisers last week, trying to decide which courses, in which order, they’d cross their fingers and hope to get into during a cruel game of “Refresh” with their internet browsers. But not at the University of the South (although that's the way first-year course registration used to work there). Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. The American Historical Association typically releases its annual jobs report at the annual meeting in January. The report was moved up to Wednesday, but not because of good news. Read more...
By Paul Fain. Physics professors don’t teach students how to read better. That’s what Lilit Haroyan, a physics instructor at Pasadena City College, thought when she was introduced to a faculty training program called Reading Apprenticeship. Read more...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “A Gamble With Consequences: State Lottery-Funded Scholarship Programs as a Strategy for Boosting College Affordability”
Author: Kati Lebioda
Organization: American Association of State Colleges and Universities
Summary: The association reviewed 26 state lottery programs that have earmarked funds for use in either elementary and secondary schools or higher education. More...
By Dan Berrett. In times like these, data points get wielded like cudgels. 
By James Yan. This month, hundreds of thousands of 18 and 19-year-olds are heading to university campuses all across Canada in eager anticipation of the first year of university life. The vast majority of these freshmen will pursue a four-year degree, which is the standard amount of time it takes to complete a bachelor’s degree in this country. Read more...
By Ken Macdougall. MacDougall, an accredited mathematics teacher, lives on the Muskoday reserve.
Rob Green, a writer for the Two Row Times newspaper, wrote a controversial piece in December addressing concerns about Teach For Canada (TFC), an American group formed to address this country's "education gaps."
At that time, TFC had just made public its first project - the "improvement" of First Nation schools. More...
By John Ebersole - EvoLLLution. State authorization, gainful employment and the credit hour; these three regulatory areas are the focus of the Department of Education’s so-called “Program Integrity” regulations. More...
By . While there are several providers of open source learning management systems for education, Kuali is the only provider of free, open source administrative software specifically built for higher education. In a blog post on August 22, it announced that while its software will still continue to be developed, open source and freely available, it will be creating a commercial company to provide for profit commercial services, such as hosting and contracted software development. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
