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A Comprehensive Blueprint for Residential Appraisal Reform - And the Winner Is?

GUEST AUTHOR: Patrick Egger is a Certified General Appraiser located in Las Vegas, NV. He teaches continuing education classes on the housing market, appraisal issues for real estate agents and appraisers. He can be reached at lvreqa@cox.net Look for the...

Republicans advance bill to tie student loan rates to markets

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in control of the House Education and the Workforce Committee voted on Thursday to advance legislation tying student loan interest rates to the financial markets, a plan they said would give borrowers a better sense o...

Congressman: Sequestration Is A ‘Legitimate’ Way To Cut The Budget

Joining other Republicans who trumpet automatic, across-the-board cuts to preschool, education, unemployment benefits, and health services, House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) said sequestration is “a legitimate effort” to implement...Show More Summary

Biogen Idec Foundation Awards $250,000 to East End House to Develop Genetics Education Program

Biogen Idec Foundation Awards $250,000 to East End House to Develop Genetics Education Program - GenoExplorers Seeks to Introduce Middle School Students to Genetics Concepts Through Interactive Learning - BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today...Show More Summary

House to Take Up Student Loan Fix

Members of the Republican-led House Education and Workforce Committee planned on Thursday to finish up a bill that would keep interest rates from doubling on new subsidized Stafford loans on July 1.

Texas House Passes Higher Education ‘License To Discriminate’

The Texas House has approved a bill that would allow student organizations at any of the state’s public universities to willfully violate nondiscrimination policies and refuse membership to whomever they choose.  According to the amendment from Rep. Show More Summary

Mammal school

3 days agoOdd : Boing Boing

A teacher shows a preserved dolphin to students during a class about mammals at Ancol Smart House in Jakarta May 16, 2013. Ancol Smart House has about 20 animals preserved as means to "educate visitors about their life in the wild." 15m visited the park in 2012, according to PR Officer Aldhita Prayudi Ancol. [Photo: [...]

Why Act When You Can Ask For A(nother) Study? House Kicks the Can On Better College Data

For those who care about increased higher education transparency, the last few days have been a trip through the Congressional looking glass, culminating with yesterday’s introduction of a bill to “study” higher education transparency. Show More Summary

One other Obama scandal to watch

On top of everything else, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced on Monday that it will probe Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' efforts to shake insurance companies down for cash, to help "educate" the public about the ObamaCare disaster it hates. Show More Summary

Road Trip: Station 51 home of Freedom House

During my visit to the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul for the Minnesota EMS Educators conference I was invited to Station 51 home of Freedom House.  Station 51 is also the home of the St. Paul EMS Academy which  is an amazing effort that is providing EMT training and employment for economically and socially [...]

Abbreviated pundit round-up: austerity kills, 400 ppm arrives and Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi

Joe Stiglitz at The New York Times writes Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream: The crisis that is about to break out involves student debt and how we finance higher education. Like the housing crisis that preceded it,...Show More Summary

Chetham’s comes up with ‘action plan’ to put its house in order

In the wake of two negative inspection reports and an ongoing police investigation, the trouble Manchester school has put forward a series of reforms that it hopes will satisfy the education authorities. Here’s what parents have been told:   Dear Parents/Guardians Just to let you know that today we have submitted our detailed Action Plan to [...]

Jim Luce: Fountain House Symposium Honors Author Andrew Solomon

New York City has an annual event that educates the public on mental health that I believe is the finest in America. This symposium -...

White House Science Fair praises future scientists and makers

There are few ways to better judge a nation’s character than to look at how its children are educated. What values do their parents, teachers and mentors demonstrate? What accomplishments are celebrated? In a world where championship sports teams are …

The Right Wing Is Wrong To Compare MSNBC's Tamron Hall's Work With The Obama Education Dept To What Armstrong Williams Did - At Least Hall Can Point To The Picture Of "Happy Black Leadership" Posing In the White House Instead Of An NEA Lawsuit

This is actually a miss as an indictment for "NewsBusters". They failed to frame the issue properly. You see - when it comes to PRIDE and the "Americanized Black" - most would rather see POSITIVE MEDIA PORTRAYALS in the hopes that this will initiate improved academic results. Show More Summary

An Open Letter to members of the Delaware House of Representatives

[I will be sending this letter personally to my own Rep and others; I encourage you to cut and paste as necessary and send it to yours.]Within the near future, SB 51, which purports to raise standards for teacher education preparation...Show More Summary

House Narrowly Passes Property Tax Bill, “Don’t Know Why We’re Tripling Down On A Bad Idea”

The House debated HB1319 today, which is the education funding bill that includes Governor Jack Dalrymple’s property tax reform. The reform is a massive shift of local school spending from the local governments to the state government which, by the logic of the legislation’s proponents, should ease pressure on property taxes. But the bill barely [...]Show More Summary

Congress Requests Input on Higher Education Act

As Congress begins the long process of renewing the Higher Education Act, the leaders of the House Committee on Education… Continue Reading The post Congress Requests Input on Higher Education Act appeared first on Frugal Dad.

Not a word from Obama (or White House press corps) on education

At his Tuesday news conference, held 100 days into his second term, President Obama spoke about the following: Syria –Use of chemical weapons in that country’s civil war –Why the administration is being methodical in determining who used chemical weapons … Continue reading ?

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