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Dr. Edmund W. Gordon Battles to Eradicate Achievement Gap

Before most knew what an achievement gap was, Dr. Edmund W. Gordon was working to eliminate it. He is regarded as one of the foremost scholars on divergent learning styles and championed supplemental education long before it was popular. In fact, Gordon popularized the term. He was also an architect of the nation’s Head Start program in the 1960s. Today, however, at 91, Gordon is still beating the drum of education reform as loud as he did half a century ago with a historic commission to get to the bottom of assessment.

Liberal Strategy Might Be the Death of Affirmative Action

Clinging to the factual argument that diversity is in everybody’s interest might not be good enough this time around.

Coming Down to the Wire, Candidates Highlight Education Differences

President Obama and Romney are both staking claim to education high ground but funding approach represents just one fork in the road.

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Lack of Safeguards Driving Student Debt

Poorly informed borrowers and easy to acquire loans are fueling the nation’s student-debt crisis.

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University Of Alabama Names First Permanent Woman President

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama’s board of trustees voted Thursday to appoint the first permanent woman president in the school’s 181-year history. The board met in an executive session for about an hour before naming current Provost Judy L. Bonner, 65. She’s the older sister of U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, and served […]

University Of Pennsylvania’s Decision to Restructure Diversity Office Sparks Controversy

In 1968, the University of Pennsylvania pioneered a formal structure to recruit and support students of color in the Perelman School of Medicine, creating the Office for Minority Affairs, believed to be the country’s first diversity office at a medical school. This year, the school announced it was closing.

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Some Universities Trying to Discourage Student Loans

In an effort to reduce student loan default rates, some colleges and universities are launching programs to improve student-loan literacy, and in a few cases, offer other kinds of financial assistance to students so they don’t get too deep into debt.

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Indictments Returned in Alleged Hazing Incident

A Calhoun County grand jury has returned criminal indictments in connection with an alleged hazing case involving a fraternity at Jacksonville State University.

NCAA Poised to Approve New Enforcement Policies

After debating changes for more than a year, the NCAA board of directors is poised to vote Tuesday on an enforcement proposal that would streamline the infractions process, impose harsher sanctions on the worst violators, expand the current two-tiered penalty structure to four and create a more standard set of penalty guidelines.

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First-Year Reflections

Dr. Craig T. Follins recognized the importance of culture in his first year as president of Olive-Harvey College.

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Iowa Regents Support Freezing Tuition

Iowa higher education leaders endorsed plans Thursday to freeze tuition rates for undergraduates next school year in exchange for what they called a modest funding increase from the Legislature.

Deans See Families as Key to Recruiting Hispanic Students

Schools are urged to to get an early start on welcoming Hispanic potential recruits and their families to their campuses.

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