July 23, 2013
Local News
The News Journal
Grants, loans, scholarships paying more of college bills
Parents are contributing less to their children’s education, and students are relying more on grants, scholarships and loans to pay college tuition and fees, a new study by Sallie Mae found. The nation’s largest student lender conducts an annual survey –...
Reporting on Delaware’s School Hiring Practices
The University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration recently released the eleventh annual “Delaware Teacher and Administrator Supply and Demand Survey Analysis Report.” The report focuses on teacher and administrative hiring, including hiring difficulties, recruitment strategies and incentives, and teacher departures, such as...
July 22, 2013
Local News
The News Journal
Delaware right to study choices of students
An editorial
Here’s a statistic that no Delawarean should ignore if they care about the state’s work force - 37 percent of the state’s adults have no college degree. Yet by 2018, 59 percent of jobs will require college-level academic accreditation. It doesn’t help that...