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Texas Group Offers Scholarships to White Men Only
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA new nonprofit group in Texas is offering college scholarships to a demographic it says has fewer scholarship options than other groups: white men. The group, called the Former Majority Association for Equality, was started by Colby Bohannon, a student at Texas State University. He's an Iraq War veteran who decided to return to school and said he had trouble finding college scholarships for which he qualified. He found many programs willing to grant money to female or minority students, but not white males like himself. "I felt excluded," Bohannon told The Austin American-Statesman. "If ...
Volunteerism and Cash-Strapped Britain: Are U.S.-Style PTAs on the Way?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWhile reading the New York Times Motherlode blog the other day, I was struck by a piece about current trends in American education. Apparently, many public school districts in the United States are increasingly turning to parents in order to cover budgetary shortfalls. In some cases, it's the parent-teacher associations that are spearheading the movement to make up for things like teacher's salaries and supplies when school boards can't. In other cases, schools are making direct appeals to parents for monetary contributions, sometimes making them mandatory. There's a lot to say about this ...
Arne Duncan Pushes to Cut Out the Middleman in Student Loans
By David Sessions - Politics DailyEducation Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday urged the Senate to overhaul student loan policies, arguing that executives at lending companies like Sallie Mae have enriched themselves while American college students shoulder loads of debt, the Washington Post reports. "Working Americans pay while bankers get rich," Duncan said. "Sallie Mae executives have paid themselves hundreds of millions of dollars in the last decade while teachers, nurses and scientists -- the backbone of the new economy -- face crushing debt because of runaway college tuition." Duncan's strong words were part of the Obama ...
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