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Defrauding Students

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Katherine Clark just released the DeVos Watch, summarizing the secretary of education’s first year in office as riddled with conflicts of interest and questionable ethics. Massachusetts’ members of Congress aren’t the only ones keeping a close eye on Betsy DeVos. Those of us who work with low-income students have witnessed with […]

Defrauding Students

AP Found Nearly 400 Cases of Sexual Assault Among Children on Bases

The Pentagon says it does not know how often the children of service members sexually assault one another on military bases. To answer that question, The Associated Press filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests with the main law enforcement agencies for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, as well as with the […]

Children Assaulted on Bases

DOD Official Visits Training Center

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (OSD) for Readiness, Mr. Charles (Fred) Drummond visited Asymmetric Warfare Training Center (AWTC) and several other training venues located on Fort A.P. Hill, 07 Mar. During his visit at AWTC, Mr. Drummond received a facilities capability […]

DOD Official Visits Training Center

Veteran Finds New Life as River Guide

“There’s something healing about the water. I don’t fully understand it.” Suzy Matsubara didn’t grow up around the water, but she was hooked from the moment she stepped into a 14-foot orange raft and began paddling down the Rogue River. She stared down at her reflection in the dark water, cut by each forward stroke […]

Vet to River Guide

Professor Uses Virtual Labs to Teach IT Skills

Steph YoungGonzaga credits online learning with enriching her education and helping establish herself as an IT thought leader. Now she wants to pay it forward. After earning both a Masters and a Doctorate online, and following a successful twenty-year career as a corporate IT executive, YoungGonzaga recently returned to her roots. She pivoted her career […]

Florida Bills Support Military, Veterans

Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a pair of veterans-focused bills. He held the signing ceremony Tuesday at Jacksonville’s National Guard armory. The measures are meant to make it easier for vets and active duty service members to get an education and a job. The first new law waives some fees and requirements for state […]

Bill Supports Military and Vets

Rep. Jim Banks Discusses Military Education Options

A new bill introduced in Congress last week would provide more educational choice for military families. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., allows military families to open an education savings account for funding a child’s education expenses. The money could be used for private school tuition, textbooks, online classes, private tutoring, and college tuition. […]

Study: Online Instructors Respond More to White Males

Online course instructors are 94 percent more likely to respond to discussion forum comments made by students with names connoting that they are white and male compared to other race-gender groups, according to research published in March. The experimental study, “Bias in Online Classes: Evidence from a Field Experiment,” was conducted by researchers from Stanford […]

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Education Options

Unfortunately, the growing divide between the military and society was apparent last week when a teacher’s inaccurate and misinformed statements about the quality of America’s armed forces made national headlines. As a U.S. Army officer for more than 30 years, I can tell you our nation’s military services are among the most respected organizations in […]

Education Options

Parents: Military Ignored Girls’ Abuse on Base

The three military fathers sat at the commander’s conference table on the U.S. Army base in Germany, pleading for help. They told the commander that their daughters were among a half-dozen girls sexually assaulted by a boy in their first-grade class at the base school. The principal had known about the boy’s behavior for months, […]

Girls Abused at Base School

AP Finds U.S. Military Overlooks Sex Abuse Among Kids on Bases

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and rapes among kids on military […]

Sex Abuse on Bases

Coursera Partners with Universities to Offer Online Degrees

In January 2012, Udacity was launched; then Coursera in April 2012, followed by edX in May 2012. Of course, these are the world’s leading online learning platforms offering MOOCs, or Massively Open Online Courses. Now Coursera is teaming up with several leading universities in the UK and U.S. to leverage its MOOCs platform to offer […]

Coursera Online Learning

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