IVESC: Is School Choice 2.0 Coming?

Time: 2018-01-02 10:25:51

January 2, 2018(Educators)Last month in the Wisconsin legislature, a bipartisan bill was unveiled to create the nation's first Education Savings Account program dedicated to the needs of gifted and talented students. By giving families access to new educat...

IVESC:Trump Unveils Apprenticeship Overhaul

Time: 2017-06-15 09:55:01

June 15,2017(Educators)PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP on Thursday announced a new executive order aimed at broadening the scope of the government's apprenticeship initiatives and retooling its skills-training programs.Speaking from the White House on Thursday...

IVESC: Creation of the 'New Collar' Job Industry Makes 4 Year Degrees Less Necessary

Time: 2016-11-14 10:25:27

November 14, 2016(Educators)Applicants without a four year bachelor's degree previously need not apply to jobs in tech, so low were their chances of being hired. Today, however, leading tech companies such as IBM recruit based on skills, rather than creden...

IVESC:What Europe can teach the US about apprenticeships

Time: 2016-09-27 09:54:21

Sept 27,2016(Educators)Although U.S. apprenticeships have traditionally focused on manual skills such as automotive repair and carpentry, the United Statesis eyeing European models like this — which provide fast-tracked, on-the-job training in white-collar p...

IVESC: Back to School: All Colleges Should Require a Class on Constitution and Civic Literacy

Time: 2016-08-28 10:24:55

August 28 , 2016(Educators)Most colleges and universities required a diversity of classes in order to provide a "balanced" education, yet academia has largely excluded government and basic life skills from these requirements. I learned how to properl...

IVESC: Colleges and Universities Have Grown Bloated and Dysfunctional

Time: 2016-05-27 10:24:20

May 27, 2016(Educators)American colleges and universities, long thought to be the glory of the nation, are in more than a little trouble. With their shameful practices -- the racial quotas and preferences at selective schools (Harvard is being sued by Asian- A...

IVESC: College Rankings Should Account for Binge Drinking

Time: 2016-04-03 10:23:44

April 3, 2016(Educators)"Right now, private rankings like U.S. News & World Report puts out each year...it encourages a lot of colleges to focus on ways to - - how do we game the numbers?"This comment from President Obama, its contorted grammar a...

VESC: Know Your Rights: A Guide to Due Process and Campus Justice

Time: 2016-03-12 10:23:14

March 12, 2016(Educators)A newly updated guide to help college students wade through the murky waters of campus disciplinary procedures has been released by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.I suggest every current and incoming college student ...

IVESCAnti-Semitism Rising in Academia, Group Warns

Time: 2016-01-01 10:22:43

January 1, 2016(Educators)In its annual year-end survey of global anti-Semitism, the Simon Wiesenthal Center warned that the global effort to "demonize and delegitimize" Israel was gaining a foothold in US. academia.Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center&#...

IVESC: AAUP's Selective Defense of Academic Freedom

Time: 2015-06-19 10:22:14

June 19 , 2015(Educators)The American Association of University Professors held its centennial conference and business meeting recently in Washington D.C. In keeping with its goal of defending academic freedom, the AAUP devoted at least two sessions to the hir...