April 7, 2015
Delaware News
Delaware Public Media
Delaware ranked second best state for college grads to find a job
Delaware is the second best state for college grads to find work according to a recent report. The report, released by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, shows that the First State is just behind Massachusetts when it comes to available jobs for graduates. The report ranks the states by how many job openings there are per college-educated worker overall — and within certain industries and career fields.
The News Journal
Washington shouldn’t control your child’s school
What do Republicans want federal education policy to look like? Right now, Republicans are divided about what they want. The open question is whether they can make an effective response to the dramatic centralization of education policy that has taken place in recent years.
National News
Education Week
Senate education leaders close in on bipartisan ESEA rewrite
After nearly two months of negotiating behind closed doors, Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., the chairman and ranking member of the education committee, appear to be nearing consensus on major pieces of a bipartisan draft to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, according to sources.
WBKO
Education commissioner: Students can’t opt out of testing
Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday says school districts cannot honor requests from parents who want to opt their children out of participating in standardized tests.
Education Week
Online coursetaking evolving into viable option for special ed.
As new technologies allow digital lessons to be tailored to various learning styles, a growing number of programs are evolving to enable students with disabilities to take online courses created with their needs in mind.
Trib Total Media
America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous
Fareed Zakaria is a columnist for The Washington Post, host of “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN and author of “In Defense of a Liberal Education.”
America’s last bipartisan cause is this: A liberal arts education is irrelevant; technical training is the new path forward. It is the only way, we are told, to ensure that Americans survive in an age defined by technology and shaped by global competition. This dismissal of broad-based learning, however, comes from a fundamental misreading of the facts and puts America on a dangerously narrow path for the future.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Community College of Philadelphia goes tuition-free for hundreds
Community College of Philadelphia is doing away with tuition for all seniors graduating from a city high school this spring who have low-enough family incomes to qualify for federal Pell grants and who meet certain other requirements.