A new Education Department study reveals that for the first time ever, a majority of college students (57%) now receive federal financial aid. The number of undergraduate students taking out loans has also increased from 35% to 41% over the
In 2014-2015, the federal government will make a groundbreaking shift: fathers and mothers will not be included on federal student aid forms. Instead, the Department of Education announced Thursday that income would be listed “from a dependent student’s legal parents
On Monday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said he misspoke when he tried to scare the American people a week before the sequester hit last Friday by claiming the across-the-board cuts would force school districts to give teachers “pink slips.” “There
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded to criticisms of the White House threatening Bob Woodward by saying that the White House and the Administration is always “respectful” to journalists trying to do their job. Carney claimed that anyone who
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke at the Neval Thomas Elementary School in Washington, D.C., on December 21. Duncan, an ardent proponent of gun control, hails from Chicago, where such shootings are ridiculously common despite gun control. At the
(AP) Funerals become a sad routine in NewtownBy DAVID KLEPPERAssociated PressNEWTOWN, Conn.A season that should be a time of joy has been marked by heart-wrenching loss in Newtown, as more victims from the massacre of 20 children and six adults
When the nation’s teachers and the curricula they teach are not doing the job, parents are uninvolved, and students are not learning the way they should, what should be done about it? If you’re Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, or
During the 2012 campaign, President Barack Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the administration’s goal was to make “student loans available to as many people as possible” regardless of credit score, something Obama called an “economic imperative in the 21st
Paul Ryan wants America’s students to succeed, and he’s not afraid of challenging the behemoth that is the public school system in order to do it. The NEA, which has presided over the decline of American education and has spearheaded
WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) —Student loans soared beyond students’ ability to pay due to the same lax lending that brought on the subprime mortgage crisis, two U.S. agencies said Friday. Private lenders made loans from 2005 to 2007 with little
At a press conference with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Thursday, President Barack Obama, again playing election year politics as he has done with immigration, accused Republicans of “playing chicken” with student loans and said, “It’s mind-boggling that we’ve
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe top Obama administration official, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, publicly supported gay marriage which is in opposition with President Obama position.
ARLINGTON, Va., May 4 (UPI) —U.S. President Barack Obama urged high school students Friday to tell lawmakers to approve a measure that would keep student loan interest rates from doubling. Obama, joined by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, made the
Spurred on by the need to court a waning youth vote, the Obama Administration addressed a concern that has been on many students’ and recent graduates’ minds: The cost of education in America. Calling college presidents from across the country
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis called a press conference yesterday to go on the offensive and attempt to blame our organization, Education Action Group, for the ugly words she recently uttered at a conference for union activists. On Monday,
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis recently appeared before the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice group and laid it on thick. Lewis, who is also a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers, leveled a cheap personal attack at
JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney with Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
Later this month, several Obama Administration officials are scheduled to participate in the 2nd annual Latino Education & Advocacy Days (LEAD) Summit hosted at the California State University campus in San Bernardino. Notably, the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
Big Government has covered the Obama Administration’s war on career colleges before, particularly the the Wall Street connections: noted short-seller Steve Eisman, who’s testimony in front of the Department of Education and in Congressional committees is shaping the Administration’s policy
Apparently oblivious to recent calls for civility, Obama’s Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and teacher union boss Randi Weingarten (who the union paid more than $600,000 in 2010) gave speeches in front of a “No Justice – No Peace” banner
This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a
This is the latest in a weekly series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, who has just released a major book revealing how communists, from Moscow to
As “Waiting for ‘Superman’” so eloquently points out, the industrial assembly-line model of America’s public schools, created decades ago, isn’t working. In fact, it’s setting us further and further behind our global competitors. Today, it is essential that our children
To close out 2009, the Democrats, who supposedly care so much about ‘the children,’ gave the DC children a special gift–they killed the successful voucher program–effectively banishing them back to horrid DC public schools. As I reported on New Year’s
The power to make money, and the ability to receive a reward for assuming risk, have been cornerstones of America’s economic success. A free-enterprise system made the U.S. the world’s only remaining superpower. Sadly, all of the above are foreign
In last year’s federal budget, Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky introduced and then withdrew what appears to have been a multi-million dollar earmark for the Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF), a now-defunct nonprofit that claims to have provided first aid training for nearly
UPDATE: Cost figures for the period 1970 through 1980 in the original version of chart 2, below, were inaccurate, and have been corrected in the revised version of the chart that appears below. This change does not affect the text
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Fox News: Education Secretary Arne Duncan is asking lawmakers to put aside “politics and ideology” as they consider a request for $23 billion in “emergency” funding for public schools – a measure Republicans
Leave it to teachers unions: they sure know how to be obnoxious at the most inappropriate times. The West Virginia chapters of the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association have teamed up with the miners union and the
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The Hill: Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday apologized for saying that Hurricane Katrina was the “best thing that happened” to education in the New Orleans school system.
What else is there to say? FALLS CHURCH, VA – JANUARY 19: U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the ‘Race To The Top’ program at the Graham Road Elementary School January 19, 2010 in Falls Church, Virginia. The President
Earlier this year Robert Chanin, the recently retired general counsel for the National Education Association, discussed the effectiveness of teachers unions at a gathering in San Diego: Despite what some of us would like to believe, it is not because
AP: Sources say President-elect Barack Obama has selected Arne Duncan to serve as education secretary. Duncan currently runs the Chicago school district.