2013年8月22日星期四

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Obama calls for cost-conscious college ratings

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses a packed house at the University of Buffalo, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in Buffalo, New York. The president was on a bus tour of Western New York. (AP Photo/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Shawn Dowd, Pool)BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Targeting the soaring cost of higher education, President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled a broad new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on their affordability and perhaps be used to allocate federal financial aid.


Obama Calls on Colleges to Compete for Students, Get Real About Tuition

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:34 PM PDT

The Obama administration is working on an ambitious plan that will rank—and, likely, rankle—colleges and universities on measures like tuition, earnings of graduates, graduation rates and other real-world markers in an effort to bring skyrocketing costs back to Earth.

Obama to rank colleges. So can you, with no wait. Here's where to look

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT

President Obama kicked off his college-affordability bus tour in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday by announcing that by the fall of 2015, the government would develop a new ratings system to compare the value of colleges. It would be based on factors such as affordability, graduation rates, and graduates' earnings, Mr. Obama said, "so students and taxpayers get a bigger bang for their buck." 

Aid, outreach credited for Neb. college attendance

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 12:37 PM PDT

An effort to increase financial aid and outreach programs for Nebraska high school students has helped increase the numbers of those pursuing a two- or four-year degree, college administrators said Thursday. ...

Innovative NY program picks up college tuition

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 11:01 AM PDT

Innovative NY program picks up college tuitionWhen 18-year-old Cheyenne Ketter-Franklin begins classes at the University at Buffalo next week, she will be spared at least one anxiety — the prospect of being saddled with a mountain of higher-education ...


Obama proposes new system for rating colleges

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:29 AM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in Buffalo, N.Y., where he began his two day bus tour to speak about college financial aid. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Calling higher education an "economic imperative," President Barack Obama is pushing for an ambitious new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on affordability and performance and ultimately determine how federal financial aid is distributed.


Student Borrowing Higher at For-Profit Than Public Colleges

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 08:19 AM PDT

Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to take out student loans than those who attend any other type of institution, according to new data released Monday by the Department of Education.

Obama to propose new system for rating colleges

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 08:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama's armored bus that will tour Iowa pulls up next to Air Force One, at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb. In 2011, the Secret Service purchased the $1.1 million bus for Obama's first bus tour as president. The impenetrable-looking black bus has dark tinted windows and flashing red and blue lights. Obama is launching a two-day bus tour on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, through New York and Pennsylvania to tout proposals for making college more affordable, a goal he has cast as "a personal mission." (AP Photo/Dave Weaver, File)BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — President Barack Obama was unveiling a sweeping new plan for rating colleges based in part on affordability, with the goal of eventually linking those ratings to federal financial aid awards.


Can Obama make colleges more affordable by rating them?

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 06:57 AM PDT

Sizing schools up.The average college student graduates with $26,000 in debt. Obama thinks he can fix that.


Mexico teachers block lawmakers from Congress

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 06:23 AM PDT

Hundreds of teachers are blocking the entrance to Mexico's Chamber of Deputies to prevent federal lawmakers from debating and voting on a set of rules to apply a recently approved overhaul of the education ...

0 条评论:

发表评论

订阅 博文评论 [Atom]

<< 主页

bnzv