IVESCFederal Student Loan Debt Tops $800 Billion
Time: 2015-02-05 10:20:29
February 5, 2015(Educators)From November 2013 through November 2014, the aggregate balance in the federal direct student loan program -- as reported by the Monthly Treasury Statement -- rose from $687,149,000,000 to $806,561,000,000, a one-year jump of $119,41...
IVESC: Vocational High Schools: Career Path or Kiss of Death?
Time: 2014-05-02 09:53:22
May 2,2014(Educators)Education professionals are split on whether vocational training in high school helps or hurts students.Vocational education historically has been prevalent in European countries, such as Finland and Germany, but often comes with a stigma ...
IVESC: Americans Learn to Succeed by Learning from Failure
Time: 2014-02-05 10:19:59
February 5 2014(Educators)America succeeds because Americans fail and forgive. That's the intriguing message -- or part of it -- of Megan McArdle's new book The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.McArdle, a Bloomberg blogger and co...
IVESC:Women Losing Out on Career and Technical Education
Time: 2013-07-29 09:52:52
June 29,2013(Educators)High school training courses help men find good-paying jobs, but limit the labor force options for women, new study shows.EFFORTS ABOUND AT THE federal, state and local levels to renew interest in vocational education and apprenticeship ...
IVESC: Before Going off to College, a Psychological Separation or Too Much Homework?
Time: 2012-08-23 10:19:24
August 23, 2012(Educators)Come September, many young peoplewill be leaving home to go away to college. Students and parents are excited about this new journey. But in addition to the excitement, there is often anxiety about moving out of the comfort zone of ho...
IVESC:Career Technical Core Preps Students in STEM
Time: 2012-04-24 09:52:21
April 24.2012(Educators)IN RECENT YEARS, college readiness standards have been a central—and at times controversial—centerpiece of education reform discussions. For a large number of students, however, college isn’t in the cards but a career with earning...
IVESC:So Many Paths to Follow
Time: 2011-08-26 09:51:49
August 26,2011(Educators)A Georgia honors student with a 1350 SAT score, he knew he wanted to go into computer science, so he went to local computer companies and asked what they wanted in an employee. "They told me I would be more marketable if I had pra...
IVESC: Unintended Consequences
Time: 2011-04-07 10:18:32
April 7, 2011(Educators)Unfortunately, President Obama does not understand the basic laws of physics. Isaac Newton's third law of motion states that for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. Nor does Mr. Obama understand the basic princi...
IVESC: Asian Nations Fastest out of Gate in Recovery; China Seen Passing U.S. as Top Economy by 2040
Time: 2010-04-01 10:17:51
April 1, 2010(Educators)Within 20 years, India will join China and Japan among the world's four largest economies, according to projections by the Asian Development Bank. Rajat M. Nag, managing director-general of the ADB, said China is likely to surpass t...
IVESC: The Limp Legacy of the Wet and Weak
Time: 2009-05-20 10:17:18
May 29, 2009(Educators)Barack Obama's legacy is coming sharply into focus, four years early. He's out to transform a nation of laws, once the pride of the Anglo-Saxon heritage and exemplar to the world, into a nation of feelings. We won't need judg...