News stories about student loan debt have suddenly become as numerous as stories on the U.S. economic recovery. For some really scary statistics, check out a recent College Board study on for-profit colleges.
Patrick O'Connor | Posted 05.23.2012
Since 1995, The Education Trust has supported the work of transforming the school counseling profession to a new vision focused on closing achievement and opportunity gaps.
Valerie Frankel | Posted 05.17.2012
It's been widely reported that the SAT administered at my daughter's school in Brooklyn on May 5, 2012, has been invalidated by the College Board. It was the only site, worldwide, found to be in violation of the College Board's standards.
AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 05.06.2012
Not long ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for top students looking to challenge themselves and get a head start on college credit. Not anymor...
J.D. Rothman | Posted 05.05.2012
What time does Staples close, in case your child can't locate his TI-183 calculator the night before the SAT exam? What is the ACT?
Richard Whitmire | Posted 05.03.2012
We need to stop lumping black and Hispanic students together -- both in terms of how we measure progress and in terms of policy. The groups have different educational needs.
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Posted 04.30.2012
This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. The national push to increase the number of Americans with college degrees is enriching at...
Gaston Caperton | Posted 04.30.2012
Knowing how to speak Chinese and understanding China's rich history is now recognized as a great asset to any American student who seeks an audience with the world.
Richard Whitmire | Posted 04.09.2012
The Harrison reforms started with superintendent Mike Miles asking a question: If 80 percent of my budget is devoted to salaries, shouldn't salaries be linked to performance? Sounds logical, but in the school world, that's radical thinking.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.04.2012
After a presidential primary campaign so far largely devoid of debate on education, the topic could be a decisive one in 2012, according to a new surv...
AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.27.2012
MINEOLA, N.Y. — The millions of students who take the SAT or ACT each year will have to submit photos of themselves when they sign up for the co...
Posted 04.14.2012
While more high school students are taking the Advanced Placement exams -- and succeeding on them -- most students who should be taking the exams aren...
Gaston Caperton | Posted 04.09.2012
We used to lead the world in college degrees. Now we've fallen dangerously behind. That's why we've set an ambitious goal for ourselves: we want 55 percent of Americans to have a college degree by the year 2025.
Eliot Schrefer | Posted 04.01.2012
What would the College Board do with an essay that gave it exactly what it asked for as far as structure and writing quality, but took as its topic something truly monstrous?
Gaston Caperton | Posted 01.04.2012
For decades, Americans have been searching for The Education President. Unfortunately, every four years it seems like a new issue comes along that pushes education to the back burner (the economy, terrorism, healthcare).
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.26.2011
NEW YORK -- Compared to many of her unemployed classmates, Gabby Bladdick counts herself among the lucky ones. Since graduating with a degree in pu...
Posted 12.19.2011
Student loan debt will top $1 trillion this year for the first time in history, USA Today reports. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New Yo...
Susan Ochshorn | Posted 12.11.2011
As state lawmakers across the country struggle with competing priorities, continuing to slash investment in early learning, it's time to do a little memory recovery, and take a crash course in neuroscience. The synapses of our youngest citizens are firing right now.
Meg Campbell | Posted 11.27.2011
My secret advice to raising SAT scores is to read the New Yorker magazine weekly -- or another magazine that is a reach to read because it's written for adults, not teens.
Gaston Caperton | Posted 11.20.2011
College and career readiness are essential to America's future. We must ensure that by the time our students graduate high school, they are prepared to succeed and to compete to be the best in the world.
AP | By JUSTIN POPE | Posted 11.14.2011
-- Scores on the critical reading portion of the SAT college entrance exam fell three points to their lowest level on record last year, and combined ...
Steve Nelson | Posted 11.08.2011
The national delirium over accountability and standardized measures is threatening the full, rich, human development of a generation of children.
Laura Skandera Trombley | Posted 09.20.2011
Every college president's heart quickens whenever a reporter from a major media outlet calls to have a chat.
Gaston Caperton | Posted 08.06.2011
Last month I visited Furr High School in Houston and met Dr. Bertie Simmons, the woman almost single-handedly responsible for Furr's dramatic turnaround.
The Huffington Post | Jessica Prois | Posted 11.16.2011
For years, the SAT has come under attack for having a certain bent. From the Harvard Educational Review to the Princeton Review, the measurement tool ...
Ellen Schloemer | Posted 05.25.2012