Education News

The survey’s news is not all bad: It reveals enormous optimism among America’s youth–provided educators are savvy enough to change the way their schools teach.

Last week, two key US senators asked the nation’s 136 wealthiest colleges and universities for information on their tuition hikes, financial aid, and endowments. With those treasure chests rising rapidly, the lawmakers wonder if a college education can be made more affordable.

Community colleges might be the best resource that America needs to retrain the existing workforce as baby boomers retire.

"These books humanize science."

Teachers at the Douglas and Lusk schools say teens are embracing the computer-based delivery, are improving in their regular classes and are even logging in outside of school hours.

I walked into my school’s tech lab the other day just in time to overhear someone shouting: “Computers exist to make my life harder!”

Representatives from many of the nation’s leading venture firms gathered Friday to learn, network and converse at the University Venture Summit sponsored by the University Venture Fund. In a panel discussion, leaders of local and national funds discussed industry trends and what venture capital firms look for in deals.

Paying for performance can introduce students to courses they would never otherwise take.

If public universities (and really that means legislatures and taxpayers) won’t pony up for more full-time faculty, higher education will have to take more responsibility for its role in creating the oversupply problem.

To motivate the students you innovate. To be in the classroom and just take the textbook — it gets monotonous, and students they don’t like that. You have to relate with something the kids like to do.