Obama’s proposed Education budget lowers the barriers to many students seeking Pell Grants and loans for college, reports Washington University’s Student Life paper:
“The estimated national average grant would increase by $121 under the budget proposal, bringing the total to $3,357. Under current estimates, the proposal could increase the number of Pell Grant recipients by 260,000.
To [...]
We’re doing a comprehensive redesign of the blog, which is good news: our vision for the blog-future is grand and we’re excited about it.
But it’s going to take a few months; that’s the bad news.
Meantime, we’ll lightly post fun stuff and items of interest here, but most of our work will be behind the [...]
What if going to class was as easy as getting online? If attending lecture took no more effort than surfing the web? Well, wait, nevermind—the increasingly wide world of online education has already made that change, with demonstrable benefits to students. So let me revise the question.
What if attending lecture felt like surfing the web [...]
by Vincent Kovar
Set the Tone through Modeling, Not Lecture.
Over much of history, education was conducted in a traditional “lecture” format largely due to the cost of books and the centralization of information in the instructor. Even today, shifting to a non-centralized, online format can seem foreign both to students and teacher. However, a solid structure [...]
Only a quarter of Americans have a college degree. What if that proportion was flipped … how different would things be if 3 out of 4 people had graduated college?
Vastly different.
In his speech to a joint session of congress last night, President Obama said that 75% of the fastest-growing jobs in the United States [...]
by Robert
On the one hand, I admire families full of creative, entrepreneurial people—even more so when the real creative dreamers and doers are the kids. When the real teachers are the kids.
On the other hand: when kids teach kids, bad things happen. That’s, like, a maxim, an accepted truth, yes? I think FOX made a [...]
