One of the nation’s largest wholesale mortgage lenders stopped funding mortgages Wednesday, a day after federal authorities barred it from making loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration.
The Obama administration is using the so-called Race to the Top Fund to strong-arm states into adopting its “core beliefs” about education reform. To qualify for grants, Oregon would have to expand charter schools, use test scores to …
I-FCS Nicholls State, Webb faces a sizable learning curve as he makes the transition to the NFL, but each of the hundreds of rookies trying to break into the professional ranks is getting a different kind of education post-college. …
Further education colleges delivering higher education participated in the survey for the second time. Their overall satisfaction rating was lower than universities’ – just 75 per cent said they were happy with their courses
After learning the basics of the programming language Python, seven graduate students in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program turned to digital writing, making their computers analyze text, mangle it, and remix it, resulting in …
The state-city gap is wider in untested Social Studies and science, Aaron Pallas finds. Using popular films to teach history can be a double-edged sword, a.
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Bolivia has become the first country in the world to ban the use of animals in circuses. Bolivian law number 4040, now passed, holds that “it is forbidden to use wild and/or domestic animals in circuses throughout the country.
The report concludes that education has played a critical role in giving workers access to higher-earning jobs. An undersupply of workers with the skills to fill the kinds of jobs fostered by new technologies means that people with …
SOURCE: AP/Karen Tam U.S. science education occurs in the context of an American culture that has very deep problems with science—problems that are manifested in many spheres other than the educational system, but are certainly …