To the Editor:
Readers can judge for themselves whether Michael Kazin ("New Ivy League, Same Old Elitism," September 11) is correct that our books describe "the changes that took place during the ’60s in almost entirely rosy and self-congratulatory terms" and that we are "hardly the only scholars too besotted with ‘transition’ for their own good." But readers may well wish to know about what our books actually set out to accomplish. More...
By Nick DeSantis and Goldie Blumenstyk. The U.S. Department of Education on Monday notified ITT Educational Services Inc. that it was placing the giant for-profit educator under tighter restrictions for access to federal student-aid money, saying the company had failed "to meet its fiduciary obligations." More...
By Kelly Field. If the departing secretary of education, Arne Duncan, has any regrets about his supervision of higher education, it’s not cracking down on "bad actors" in the for-profit-college sector sooner. More...
By . Michelle Obama on Monday unveiled a new element of her work to encourage young people to pursue education beyond high school: a public-awareness campaign called "Better Make Room."
The campaign, which rolled out with a diverse list of partners including the Lumina Foundation, Mashable, and Funny or Die, has a website, a hashtag, and a video in the style of a public-service announcement. More...
By Sara Goldrick-Rab. Baby Boomers got a pretty good deal when it came to college. True, only a small fraction of high school graduates went to college—and those people were mainly male, white, and well-off. But with family support, some work, and perhaps a modest Pell Grant, college costs were such that those who did go could usually make ends meet. More...
By Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and Matthew M. Chingos. The federal government released earnings data on U.S. colleges and universities for the first time last month. The new College Scorecard adds an important new dimension to previous government data collections on colleges and universities, which focused on inputs such as number of faculty and student characteristics and the immediate outcomes of retention and graduation rather than longer term outcomes including earnings in the labor market. More...
By . Pell Grants, providing assistance to low-income families, cost more than $30 billion a year. The maximum grant is close to $6,000 a year per student, more than the amount provided by virtually all other antipoverty programs. More...
By Matthew Reisz. Deeper academic collaboration between Cuba and the United States has now been put on the agenda. More...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. Online education holds promise – and also danger when adopted without transformation, in the name of benefiting everyone who needs it – according to Tressie McMillan Cottom, assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Read more...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In June 2012, in an interview conducted at the Aspen Ideas Festival General Stanley McChrystal commented that citizenship in our country has atrophied. More...
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