BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — They don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but ... New York public college students who would stand to gain from the nation’s most ambitious free-tuition proposal are quick to point out a sobering reality from their own meager finances: Free tuition doesn’t mean free college. Take Brooklyn College senior Florencia Salinas, who [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — American students have a math problem. The latest global snapshot of student performance shows declining math scores in the U.S. and stagnant performance in science and reading. “We’re losing ground — a troubling prospect when, in today’s knowledge-based economy, the best jobs can go anywhere in the world,” said Education Secretary John [...]
Ohio is looking to some of its youngest minds, from kindergarteners to high school seniors, to assist with taking on the opioid crisis plaguing the Buckeye State. Officials at the Ohio Department of Education earlier this week announced that the department, along with Battelle Memorial Institute’s Ohio STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Learning Network, [...]
BOSTON (AP) — As a surge of students from China begins to level off, many U.S. colleges are expanding recruiting efforts in the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America in part to boost budgets that have come to rely on tuition dollars from international students. The number of Chinese students at U.S. colleges rose [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The vast majority of U.S. students still lack a solid grasp of science despite some modest gains by fourth and eighth graders, especially girls and minorities. The problem is particularly acute among the nation’s high school seniors. The 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called the Nation’s Report Card, released Thursday [...]
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Instructor Matt Dunlevy probably didn’t have to remind his University of North Dakota students that they’d be sharing the airspace as they stood in a field preparing their drones for flight as the sun set one recent afternoon. “Welcome to the drone business, where you will be eaten alive by bugs,” [...]
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Spencer Mulligan knew his family could pay for his college education, even without loans or grants. So when the University of Connecticut offered a merit award of $20,000 over four years, he saw it as a bonus. As a discount on in-state tuition, it brought the cost well below half of [...]
The state’s lead law enforcement officer has brought together a group consisting of lawmakers, college and university professionals, student representatives, a CEO of a collection firm and a pair of attorneys to study student loan debt collection practices. According to a press statement announcing Attorney General Mike DeWine’s formation of the group, the study is [...]
Two licks with a wooden paddle in the principal’s office was the price 11-year-old Kaley Zacher, of Dexter, Ga., paid for ignoring warnings about falling behind in her school work. Rules are rules, said her mother, Kimberly Zacher, so why shouldn’t the punishment be the same as at home when her daughter falls out of [...]
COLUMBUS — The prosecutor calls it “bomb week,” his shorthand for eight school threats — many written in school bathrooms or on notes — over a few days in May that set off evacuations and investigations, parental panic, and the rumor mill of students linked by cellphones and social media in his Ohio county. Track [...]