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Learning Outcomes

The tried-and-true credit hour is so entrenched in higher education, it’s hard to imagine a system that doesn’t measure students’ academic progress in units of classroom time. Generally speaking, if a student reaches 120 hours, he or she will be walking across the stage to claim a bachelor’s degree. But the conversation around learning outcomes is […]

College Classroom

Soldier Helps Student Veterans

Some students enter college with three main concerns: earning a degree, staying healthy and balancing a social life. Others, such as Raul Santana of Hazleton, add serving our country to that mix. Santana, a senior communications major at Bloomsburg University, serves as a member of the U.S. Army and also is president of the BU […]

Student Veterans

Arizona State Offers Certificate to Close Military-Civilian Gaps

A first of its kind 18-credit program aimed at narrowing the military-civilian gap by educating students about American veterans is expected to launch during the upcoming fall semester here, Arizona State University officials announced this week. Enrollment started Thursday for “Veterans, Society and Service,” ASU’s first undergraduate certificate dedicated solely to the study of veterans, military […]

Arizona State University

Applicants Need More Data to Choose Colleges

It’s college application season. First-time students, returning students, full-time students, and part-time students are researching which colleges will meet their academic and career interests and best position them for success in the workforce. A quick online search is all it takes to find this information, right? Think again. Online resources like College Scorecard and College Navigator help students learn […]

Vets Council Seeks Education Center

Hoping to offer virtual reality and other methods of education that appeal to video-game-playing generations, the Alabama Veterans Museum and Archives in Athens asked the city Monday to pledge $500,000 toward a $1-million cost to build an education center for students. The proposed education center is meant to inspire students to study science, technology, engineering, […]

Education Center

Harvard Triples Online Offerings

Harvard University continues to demonstrate that online learning and an ivy-league education can go hand-in-hand. As recently reported in The Harvard Crimson, since 2014, Harvard University has tripled its online course offerings and all signs point to continued growth moving forward. According to the dean of the Division of Continuing Education at Harvard University, the Extension […]

Harvard University

Wounded Warrior Troops May Face Separation

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ controversial new “deploy or out” policy, which requires troops to become deployable within 12 months or face separation, comes with a built-in exemption for the combat wounded. But in designated “wounded warrior” units maintained by the services, those recovering from combat-related illness and injury form an increasingly small percentage of the total […]

Wounded Warriors

Putin: Russia Has “Invincible” Nukes

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Thursday dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s boasts about developing a new array of nuclear weapons, saying America’s missile defense is ready to protect the nation but is not directed at Russia. Putin claims that Moscow has tested weapons that cannot be intercepted and would make NATO’s missile defense “useless.” That […]

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School Choice for Military

School choice for military families is an idea whose time has come, according to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Her support of the idea, announced at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, is one that should resonate with readers of Military Times. In 2017, Military Times conducted a survey of its readers that yielded striking findings: 35 percent of […]

School for Military Kids

Licensing of Spouses Issue Will Affect Base Locals

Whether or not school systems and state professional licensing requirements are friendly to military kids and spouses will help officials choose where to station future troops, the Pentagon’s top civilian officials wrote in a letter last week. Transferring a student to a new school district, and “license reciprocity,” whether or not professional licenses held by military spouses […]

One Vet with AR-15 Makes Himself School Guard

Enough is enough, says an armed U.S. Army veteran in Indiana who has decided to take student and teacher protection into his own hands after the horrifying Florida school shooting and threats of school violence rocked his own town. Mark Cowan says he is keeping watch outside North Side High School in Fort Wayne with his AR-15 and […]

School Security Guard

GOP Bill Would Make College Less Affordable

WASHINGTON – A bill proposed by Republicans in the House of Representatives could change the college-financing system dramatically, moving billions of dollars out of financial aid programs. If H.R. 4508, becomes law, college affordability would go from bad to worse, say many higher education experts, and students from low-income backgrounds would suffer most. Read More

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