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As schools increasingly embrace digital learning, a new report says more federal action is needed to encourage the effective use of educational technology.SOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the full Article and Download the Report
Days after the Obama administration and several state attorneys general joined a False Claims Act lawsuit accusing Education Management Corp. of violating federal law governing incentive compensation for recruiters, a federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a similar lawsuit against another major for-profit institution, Corinthian Colleges Inc.SOURCE: Inside Higher Education Read the Full Article
The elimination of California’s higher-education coordinating board is causing concern among some researchers that decades of data about college students will be harder to access.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education Read the Full Article
The phone-hacking scandal that erupted over Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. in the United Kingdom last month took a new turn this week when the heads of the New York state and New York City teacher unions sent a letter demanding that the state controller and department of education throw out a $27 million no-bid contract […]
Efforts to quickly legalize student access fees for community college cyber-classes – fees that are banned by state law but which may be rampant across California campuses – have hit a snag in the state Capitol.SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle Read the Full Article
The Department of Justice and four states on Monday filed a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against the Education Management Corporation, the nation’s second-largest for-profit college company, charging that it was not eligible for the $11 billion in state and federal financial aid it had received from July 2003 through June 2011. SOURCE: The New York Times […]
The majority of studies investigating financial predictors of student success in higher education focus on liberal art schools and have investigated a limited number of conditioning variables in analyses. This study adds to the literature by exploring financial predictors of student success through a unique sample of students from an art and design college and […]
November 29th – December 2nd, 2011 – Orlando, Florida, USAMain Purpose Relationships between Education/Training and Information/Communication Technologies (ICT) are continuously increasing, sometimes in unexpected ways, with original ideas, innovative tools, methodologies and synergies. Education (cognitive development) and training (performance in a specific skill) are different but highly related notions. They have common means to achieve […]
Abstract As the growth of online programs continues to rapidly accelerate, concern over the retention of the online learner is increasing. Educational administrators at institutions offering online courses, those fully online or brick and mortars, are eager to promote student achievement. Retention is critically important, not just for student success, but also for the success […]
This past April, the Colorado House Education Committee rejected a bill that would have granted the children of undocumented state residents in-state university tuition.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher EducationRead the Full Article
