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Portland, Ore.-based CollegeNET Inc., a seller of web-based scheduling and admissions services for schools, is accusing one of its largest competitors, Los Angeles-based XAP Corp., of making false representations to colleges and universities, assuring them of the confidentiality of student data collected by XAP on their behalf. Read the Full Story
“Despite the more than quadrupling of federal spending on education and the near tripling of real per pupil expenditures between 1965 and 2003, most measures of student achievement have remained flat,” McCluskey says. “Math and reading scores have stagnated, graduation rates have flatlined, and researchers have shown numerous billion-dollar federal programs to be failures.”Read the […]
Van Horne, who received a bachelor’s degree from University of Arizona and a M.Ed. from ASU and is a specialist in the theory and practice of distance education, joined Distance Learning and Technology in 1986.Read the Full Story
According to the College of Education’s newsletter, Insight, Associate Dean of the College of Education Mike Hardman and Associate Dean for Professional Education Diana Pounder will both be taking new jobs on July 1. Read the Full Story
That value amounted to about 60 percent of all legal global desktop software sales of $51 billion, said the Business Software Alliance (BSA).Read the Full Story
Barry Sheerman, education select committee chairman, says he will ask Mr Clarke to investigate the trade when he appears before the committee next week. Read the Full Story
Both grants are for the period from June 1, 2004, to May 30, 2007. Read the Full Story
Researchers, working with an exam plagiarism watchdog, say that very few of these cheating students are caught. Read the Full Story
Bernhard, who has served since 2000 as director of academic programming and outreach for Extended University Programs, will lead EUP while the University conducts a national search for a replacement for Dr. Alan G. Walker who is leaving WMU to become president of Upper Iowa University. Bernhard’s appointment, which is effective July 1, will be […]
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was rooted in the fundamental idea that we are all created equal and that every citizen deserves an equal shot at the American Dream. But today, too many Americans, priced out of college or lacking training, are missing out on the key to opportunity and success in the American […]