Archive for
October, 2007
October 30, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: Student Loan Mess, Uncategorized
to state lawmakers they should avoid “private loans” unless they have no other choice. Robert Shireman says that Iowa Student Loan has made the assertion they are the best deal and that is not the case. He also says that other states have lower interest rates.
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October 30, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: Uncategorized
and the University of Northern Iowa express support for their schools’ and the credit car marketing practice the school has with Bank Of America. Student leaders at the University of Iowa do not
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October 30, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: Uncategorized
18 teachers in Connecticut are going over to China in order to visit the Ministry of Education in Beijing and also visit the Shandong education department in Jinan and learn about the Chinese education system.
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October 30, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: Uncategorized
The AP looks at this state and what some schools are doing to help reduce the dropout rate. Putnam Vocational-Technical High School moved to smaller groups of students to increase the graduation rate.
The Detroit News in a report on these types of schools in Michigan says that state officials reject claims that they have 78 schools on the “dropout factory” list.
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October 30, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: Uncategorized
is going to have 2-days of major debate whether to make the High School Assessments a graduation requirement for students starting in 2009.
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October 29, 2007
By: richard.ginn
Category: Uncategorized
in an AP article. These schools have less than 60% of high school freshman make it to their senior year. The article states that in the US 1,700 regular or vocational high schools nationwide that fit that description.
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