by Julia Edwards | Nov 9, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON — After a bitter and polarizing midterm election, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, maintains that reforming the public education system is one action both parties can agree to take. Harkin will continue to chair the education committee and says Republican...
by Julia Edwards | Nov 2, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education met a Nov. 1 deadline for unveiling regulations to police for-profit colleges, after making extensive revisions in the package due to public push-back. The set of rules, scheduled to go into effect next July, include...
by Julia Edwards | Oct 30, 2010 | Politics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. From all over the country, people arrived in Washington on Saturday for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. More than 230,000 Facebook users said they were coming. (Josh Lederman/for...
by Julia Edwards | Oct 27, 2010 | Education
Leading up to the rally, here is what Julia Edwards reported for Washington’s NPR affiliate, WAMU 88.5. Thousands are expected to fill the National Mall Saturday for Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.”...
by Julia Edwards | Oct 5, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON — Philanthropist Melinda Gates announced a $34.8-million award to high-performing community colleges Tuesday at the White House’s first summit on community colleges, an effort by the Obama administration to promote the schools as a path to jobs...
