Teaching financial savvy
With so many Americans defaulting on mortgages and crushed by credit card debt, the campaign to require “financial literacy” for high school students is growing, reports MarketWatch. Utah, Missouri and...
View ArticleAn exercise in hypothetical reasoning.
Arthur M. Hauptman, educational policy consultant, gives us this bold 1560-word essay that suggests that public universities facing budget woes should consider expansion: The recent protests in...
View ArticleDirect federal lending
NAS has a Peter Wood piece today on the possibility that student loan reform will be put into the health care bill-like-project currently languishing in Congress. Here’s the skinny on the procedural...
View ArticleReal men of genius
One of my favourite education writers, Jay Mathews of the Washington Post, writes about a Mr. Eric Hanushek, who in addition to being an economist, may very well be a real man of genius. Remember all...
View ArticleShow me the money!
The fad of suing states for more education funding has reached the state that can probably least afford it. More than 60 children and nine school districts across California filed a historic lawsuit...
View ArticleCollege majors that lead to well-paid careers
Which college majors lead to career success? A Wall Street Journal chart, based on 2010 Census data, looks at unemployment rates and pay for various majors. Nursing (2.2 percent unemployment, $60,000...
View ArticleWall Street and Charter Schools
Diane Ravitch has an illuminating, if somewhat overwrought piece up today on Bridging Differences that has an assertion and a question. The assertion is that the charter school movement is dependent...
View ArticleJob outlook for new grads
Employers plan to hire more new college graduates than they did last year. Finance, accounting and computer and information science majors are in the most demand.
View ArticleFinance wannabes try Teach for America
With hiring slow on Wall Street, business and economics graduates are applying to Teach for America, deferring the search for a finance job, reports the New York Times. In the last several years,...
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