by Homa Bash | Apr 7, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden outlined the Obama administration’s plan to boost community college graduation rates by giving college credit for job-training apprenticeships on Monday. Biden announced the launch of the Registered Apprenticeship College...
by Elissa Nadworny | Apr 3, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON – First lady Michelle Obama planted the sixth annual White House Kitchen Garden on Wednesday, promoting her campaign for healthy eating and farm-to-table operations in schools and communities across the country. This year’s garden is a pollinator...
by Abby Theodros | Nov 11, 2013 | Education
Starting January 2014, the GED will distribute a new test aligned with Common Core standards. Nervous students are racing against the clock to pass the exam before the revisions are made.
by Bryan Lowry | Nov 7, 2013 | Education
WASHINGTON – Texas public school students continue to lag behind the national average in reading scores, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress scores released Thursday. The “Nation’s Report Card,” as the NAEP assessment is called, scores eighth...
by Katie Peralta | Oct 23, 2013 | Business & Tech, Education, Topics
WASHINGTON — Although college tuition rose this year by the smallest percentage in 30 years, its crippling cost still deters too many young Americans from pursuing a higher education degree that could eventually land them a lucrative job, finance and education...
by Bryan Lowry | Oct 16, 2013 | Education
WASHINGTON – For the second time in less than a year, the Supreme Court on Tuesday revisited the issue of affirmative action in college applications, hearing oral arguments on whether a state’s voters can pass a law barring public universities from using race as a...
