Posts Tagged ‘for-profit’
DC Shuttle: A Little RESPECT for Teachers?
by The New England Council
February 21, 2012
A new $5 billion Education Department program aims to improve teacher training and career paths. The Recognizing Educational Success, Professional Excellence and Collaborative Teaching (RESPECT) project encourages states and districts to work with teachers and education colleges to reform teacher training, compensation and professional development. Education Secretary Arne Duncan introduced the program, part of President ...
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DC Shuttle: Gainful Employment Rules, Reducing Loan Defaults and Other Higher Ed News from Washington
by The New England Council
June 6, 2011
On Thursday, the Education Department released the final "gainful employment" rules for vocational schools. In order to qualify for federal financial aid, for-profit and certificate programs will be required to prepare students for gainful employment by meeting one of three requirements: the average annual student loan payment is not more than 30% of a graduate's ...
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The Profit Prophets in Higher Education
by Jay A. Halfond
September 30, 2010
The nation seems to have suddenly awoken to the reality that for-profit academic institutions are a force to be reckoned with. For so long, they have been ignored as inconsequential, second-rate competition, and vilified for their greed and lack of quality. Two events seemed to have changed their image into something far more formidable: the ...
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Book Review: Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent
by Alan R. Earls
December 12, 2010
Harnessing America's Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning, Peter Smith, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2010
In 1970, I was a high school student in a suburban New England town. The invasion of Cambodia and the shootings at Kent State had brought spectacular illumination to the end of the academic year and dimmed hopes that the war ...
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