by Matt Mansfield | Nov 10, 2011 | Education
WASHINGTON — Two years ago, a dream came true for Kyle Hardrick. It’s the same dream that hundreds of American college freshmen will experience this weekend: suiting up for their first NCAA basketball game. After committing to the University of Oklahoma as a...
by Adam Banicki & Xiaolan Tang | Nov 2, 2011 | Education, Politics
WASHINGTON — Issuing a call for Congress to involve itself in monitoring college sports, Democratic Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush said the NCAA “would make the mob look like choirboys.” “I have this innate understanding of the NCAA, and I think it is one of the most...
by Lauren Chooljian | Nov 2, 2011 | Education
WASHINGTON — Despite Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s consistent calls for increased teacher salaries, a new study says that most public school teachers aren’t actually being underpaid. The new research from The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise...
by Jamie Coughlin | Oct 31, 2011 | Business & Tech, Topics
Among the people that live in the tent village erected by Occupy DC protesters at McPherson Square in Washington, ‘Republican’ is almost a dirty word. “You say the word ‘Republican’ and people mentally shut down,” Jonathan Bremer said of his fellow protesters. Which...
by Adam Banicki & Xiaolan Tang | Oct 31, 2011 | Education
WASHINGTON — College athletes are demanding more compensation from the NCAA, which has seen paychecks rise thanks to lucrative TV deals — and now Congress will probe how the NCAA is handling itself. The NCAA is entering a financial stratosphere it has never seen...
