Topics Education Awarded Top Honors

Topics Education Awarded Top Honors
Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) June 16, 2006 -- The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), announced Topics Education, an education outreach firm, as the winner of two Distinguished Achievement Awards...

“Measuring Up 2008″

If you enjoy demoralizing statistical reports and analyses, please be sure to read “Measuring Up 2008.” It’s the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education’s biennial report on how the U.S. is doing educationally and it will make you want to stick your head in the sand and just wait this one [...]

If you enjoy demoralizing statistical reports and analyses, please be sure to read “Measuring Up 2008.” It’s the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education’s biennial report on how the U.S. is doing educationally and it will make you want to stick your head in the sand and just wait this one out.

I stopped reading after these two statistics nuggets: (a) college tuition has increased 439% since 1982-1984 (the median family income has only increased 147%); and (b) about half of American college students attending four-year colleges don’t complete their degrees in six years.

The good news is, someone cares enough about the problem to not only realize there is one, but to research the depth of the conundrum and to (hopefully) work out some solutions.

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$517,500-plus buyout OKd for L.A. schools chief David Brewer

No successor is named, but Ramon Cortines is expected to lead the school district, at least for the interim.

The Los Angeles Board of Education voted Tuesday to pay at least $517,500 to buy out Supt. David L. Brewer midway through his four-year contract to run the nation's second-largest school system. Read more ...

The kids are all right, but their parents . . .

The kids are all right, but their parents . . .

It is the prerogative of every generation of graybeards to look down the age ladder and accuse today's young of sloth, greed, selfishness -- and stupidity.