by Supporting Education | Feb 14, 2019 | News, Student Issues
One of the worst things that can happen to a school is for it to lose its national accreditation. On January 11, 2019, the University of Alaska Anchorage was informed that its education department had suffered this indignity. The Council for the Accreditation of...
by Supporting Education | Feb 6, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
In the summer of 2018, the news was aflame with stories of immigrant children being held in detention camps, with pictures of young boys and girls sleeping on cement in chain link cages under emergency blankets. Since then, the tide of stories diminished to a trickle,...
by Supporting Education | Jan 30, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Career Education Corporation is the business behind Colorado Technical University and American InterContinental University, two for-profit remote learning schools that together enroll approximately 34,000 students. While both schools are still accredited, they...
by Supporting Education | Jan 23, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Hamdi Ali, 17, is a Muslim high school student from Edmonton who spent last summer in a research program aimed at helping women and other minorities in STEM subjects. In that time, she made headlines and could possibly have revolutionized a niche of the mining...
by Supporting Education | Jan 16, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In 2007, the Bush Administration passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA), which created the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). The point of this was to encourage professionals to work in public service fields by offering them forgiveness...
