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School districts that used to dedicate years to the study of cursive handwriting have scaled back considerably in recent years, however, Indiana is the first state to remove it from the curriculum altogether. Instead, teachers will be focusing on teaching their students to type. The...

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Administrators at SUNY have been asking New York lawmakers to approve their proposed tuition rate increases for months, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo stood his ground. Citing the state of the economy as reason for keep tuition level stable, Cuomo said that he would not allow...

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After the Obama administration conducted an in-depth study on the for-profit college sector, it was found that 50% of all graduates that default on their student loans originate from these institutions of higher learning. The main problem is that it costs considerably more to obtain...

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Alternative high schools which enroll at risk youths have a major impact on the education that troubled kids get. When a student creates numerous distractions, behaves violently or is found to have engaged in illegal activities outside of school, usually he or she is sent...

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The results of the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress show that nearly 75% of all high school schools fail to understand how the US government works. Compared to the results of a similar study conducted five years ago, test scores fell by 3%. Students...

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As the newspaper industry struggles to stay relevant in this highly technological age, The Washington Post faces a major lawsuit. Although the newspaper giant itself is at the center of serious allegations, it is actually its subsidiary, Kaplan Higher Education, that is alleged to have...

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In response to finding that new regulations will be put into place against their companies, the biggest firms in the United States that offer education to students at a profit are now saying that they will not make changes until they are forced to do...

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In the United Kingdom today, there more than 1 million people from Poland and of these, around 7,000 are students. Thanks to a joint initiative between the Warsaw School of Economics and the Warsaw University, more of these Polish immigrants may begin taking classes in...

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Charter schools have been big news in the United States for quite some time now and it appears that the concept is spreading across the Atlantic to catch the interest of educators and parents in the United Kingdom now. In the UK, this type of...

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United States President Barack Obama has sent the US Congress a blue print which he intends to use to help fix the problems he sees in the nation’s education policy and those in his administration are hoping that the problems faced can be overcome, pointing...

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