The Value Of College, In 2 Graphs
PIMCO’s Bill Gross jumps on the college-bashing bandwagon in his latest note. A mind is a precious thing to waste, so why are millions of America’s students wasting theirs by going to college? … Students … can no longer assume that a four year degree will be the golden ticket to a good job in [...]
Catholic University To Phase Out Co-Ed Dorms
At colleges across the country, some 90 percent of student housing is co-ed. Now, Catholic University in Washington, D.C., wants to turn back the clock. The college is returning to single-sex dorms. The university hopes to fight back against a culture of binge drinking and casual sex. Universities started letting young men and women live [...]
Never Too Old To Wear A Cap And Gown
It’s never too late to go back and get a college degree, at least not for 99-year-old Leo Plass of Redmond, Ore. Plass enrolled at Eastern Oregon Normal School in 1929 to become a teacher. He lost his savings in a bank failure, and in 1932, Plass’ friend offered him a job with a logging [...]
Teachers Searching for Jobs
The Department of Education just took more than 4% cuts by the legislature this session, the largest cut to the agency in recent years.
Unschooled: How One Kid Is Grateful He Stayed Home
With summer on the horizon, many teens are looking forward to a break from school and tests. But for Sam Fuller of Albany, not much is going to change. Fuller is part of a rare minority of homeschoolers who call themselves “unschooled” — a more unstructured self-directed form of homeschooling. There are about 2 million [...]
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