Yale University is moving forward with plans to build two residential colleges, an expansion that could lead to the largest increase in the student body since the Ivy League college began admitting women in 1969. Read the rest ...
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Capella Education Company Announces Investor Conference Schedule for Feb. and March 2008 (Centre Daily Times)
Capella Education Company (NASDAQ: CPLA), a provider of exclusively online post-secondary education through its wholly owned subsidiary Capella University (www.capella.edu), today announced its schedule to present at the following investor conferences in February and March 2008: Continue reading ...
Black home-schoolers grow
"What is happening is that home schooling has gotten to the point that there are so many support services that whether you're white or whether you're a minority, it's much easier to try it than it was 10 years ago"
For the most part, the reasons that led Alicia Huff to home-school her four children mirror those of her peers in the Columbia area.
She and her husband wanted to teach their children, ages 10 to 18, a certain set of values; customize a curriculum to address their children's unique needs; and create a close family environment.
But the Huffs have one more motivating factor -- the achievement gap in public schools between black and white students.
Minority students and children living in poverty tend to have difficulty with standardized tests. Read more
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