A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed on Saturday that the final deal will not include the rider that would have prevented the Obama administration from cracking down on the online school industry. based on news Huffington Post, with additions by Ed: A bipartisan group of H[...]
Posts Tagged ‘western governors’
April 10th, 2011 - 9:48 am § in Schools & Colleges
BREAKING NEWS: Online Schools will be regulated by the Department of Education
April 7th, 2011 - 8:34 pm § in Misc.
Expand ‘virtual’ schools, say lawmakers
A pair of lawmakers and Jeb Bush push to grow Florida’s online schools by letting private providers offer classes. from Miami Herald By Patricia Mazzei More students could learn from a laptop in their bedroom rather than a whiteboard in a brick-and-mortar classroom under a pair of proposals in t[...]
April 7th, 2011 - 10:04 am § in Schools & Colleges
Falwell’s University goes Online, Receives $445 Million in Federal Student Aid
“Ramping up on-line courses will likely mean higher revenues for Liberty, because such courses can bring in hefty federal financial aid and student tuition payments at low institutional cost.” from Campus Progress: Liberty University, based in Lynchburg, Va., is famous for the fact that [...]
April 7th, 2011 - 9:25 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
UPDATE ON WGU: The Miracle of WGU Indiana!
Ed. I just heard that WGUI is accessible under Indiana’s FOIA! Anyone who has ideas about this is welcome to send them to me. This is the new website for what Mitch Daniels, the Republican Governor refers to as Indiana’s “eighth state university.” The miracle of WGUI is t[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 10:43 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Kristoff: on faculty unions.
Nicholas Kristoff, NY Times Teaching is unusual among the professions in that it pays poorly but has strong union protections and lockstep wage increases. It’s a factory model of compensation, and critics are right to fault it. But the bottom line is that we should pay teachers more, not less �[...]
UPDATE: Why WGU pay puts WGU’s Mendenhall near the top of presidents of elite private universitiies
I found an article in the Deseret News from 2008/ The article notes that President Mendenhall’s salary far exceeds those of other college presidents in Utah. UPDATE, originally posted on Mar 30, 2011 William A. Sederburg, Utah’s commissioner of higher education, told the Deseret News t[...]
April 5th, 2011 - 8:12 am § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Lowry, Smith and Flynn .. in support of WGU
From Flynn’s Harp, blog by former publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal. Thousands of low-income students who will graduate from high school in Washington State in 2012 expecting the state to fulfill a promise to make a free college education available to them represent a looming crisi[...]
Jeb Bush style school reform
The salesman is not the 43rd president, George W. Bush, but the 43rd governor of Florida, his brother Jeb. At the core of the Jeb Bush agenda are ideas drawn from his Florida playbook: Give every public school a grade from A to F. Offer students vouchers to help pay for private school. Don’t l[...]
April 4th, 2011 - 2:15 pm § in Schools & Colleges
UPDATE: What is “competency based learning?”
(Updated from April 3.) Ed. Senator Kohl-Welles, who holds a PhD in education, has told us that she wil vote AGAINST the Senate version of HB1822. To support her, you might send an email to [email protected]. Ed. I have found Dr. Mendenhall’s thesis on the web. (The entire th[...]
April 4th, 2011 - 8:48 am § in Misc.
from a WGU “graduate” in math education
Poking around on the web for student evaluations of WGU. Here’s an interesting one on the MAT in Math http://www.onlinedegreereviews.org/college/western-governors-university-reviews/reviews/: I recently finished the MAT secondary math program. I came to the program with a fairly recent undergrad[...]