| Ranking the Schools that Turn Poor Kids into Wealthy Ones Posted: 18 Jan 2017 02:12 PM PST  At a time when parents of college-bound students are waiting anxiously for news about acceptances and wondering about their children's future, a new study from the Equality of Opportunity Project is out with a new way of evaluating the effectiveness of institutions across the country. The report used publicly available data to establish what it calls a "mobility rate" for each college or university in the country. The result is a list of top colleges that looks nothing like typical college ranking schemes, with leafy private schools yielding place to an assortment of mostly urban, mostly public institutions.
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| Czech bubble artist surrounds 275 students with soap 'screen' to claim record Posted: 18 Jan 2017 11:32 AM PST  A Czech performer of bubble art surrounded 275 high school students and a car with a single soap-bubble screen on Wednesday, breaking the national record. Matej Kodes raised the screen around a rectangular 11 metre-by-7.5 meter area, enclosing those inside for a few seconds. Kodes, who has performed since 2008, achieved a Guinness World Record in 2014 for "most people inside a soap bubble", which at that time stood at 214.
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| Watch These College Students Experience A Terrifying Boating Accident And Somehow Emerge Unharmed Posted: 18 Jan 2017 10:24 AM PST  Two University of Florida students were participating in the FLW College Fishing tournament over the weekend when their boat spun out of control, flinging them overboard. Conner Young and Hunter Bland were the two students in the boat, cruising at 60 mph, when a locknut came loose, disabling the steering wheel and knocking the outboard motor violently to one side, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
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| Democrats blast Trump's pick for Education Secretary Posted: 18 Jan 2017 06:10 AM PST  (Corrects in 6th paragraph to clarify rules) By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats sliced holes in billionaire Betsy DeVos' credentials to be the next U.S. Education Secretary at a confirmation hearing on Tuesday, raising doubts whether President-elect Donald Trump's pick will win approval in the full Senate. The nomination of DeVos to head an agency that sets policy for younger children and universities and also administers a college financial aid program of $1 trillion has outraged Democrats who believe the Michigan Republican wants to dismantle public education. Teachers unions, a major constituency for the party, roundly oppose DeVos, a philanthropist and investor.
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| Universities, Colleges Where Students Are Eager to Enroll Posted: 18 Jan 2017 04:30 AM PST While prospective students are often anxious about receiving an acceptance letter this time of year, most colleges are concerned about meeting their enrollment targets. |
| DeVos: Won't dismantle public schools as education secretary Posted: 18 Jan 2017 12:23 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sometimes contentious confirmation hearing, education secretary pick Betsy DeVos pledged that she would not seek to dismantle public schools amid questions by Democrats about her qualifications, political donations and long-time work advocating for charter schools and school choice.
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| DeVos pledges not to undo public education, pushes choice Posted: 17 Jan 2017 09:19 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sometimes contentious confirmation hearing, education secretary pick Betsy DeVos pledged that she would not seek to dismantle public schools amid questions by Democrats about her qualifications, political donations and long-time work advocating for charter schools and school choice. |
| Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education pick, hints at sweeping changes ahead Posted: 17 Jan 2017 07:56 PM PST  Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos listens to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., before testifying on Capitol Hill on Jan. 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Education, indicated that she is open to radically rethinking the federal government's role in education on issues from sexual assault cases on college campuses to cutting federal support for the nation's public schools in a contentious confirmation hearing Tuesday evening. Democratic senators repeatedly pressed DeVos to spell out her specific vision for the Department of Education, but the education activist and billionaire from Michigan kept mostly to generalities, outlining a broad vision of school choice in which parents could use state money to send their kids to private or charter schools.
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