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Congressional spending deal includes gains for student aid and NIH.
An appropriations deal reached by House and Senate negotiators last week largely reflects the priorities of the upper chamber, including higher spending on student aid, career and technical education, and university-based research.
The spending bill for fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1, would increase the Education …
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In a recent survey career school executives picked increasing enrollments as their top challenge for 2015.
Learn why one solution is growing in popularity by downloading the Career College Guide: Transforming High School Non-Completers Into Your Best Students.
This guide offers you everything you need to know …
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Despite facing great challenges and, at times, turmoil, America's career colleges continue to make a positive impact on students and the American economy.
The Imagine America Foundation (IAF) has announced the release of the 2015 Fact Book to offer a data-supported look at the impressive accomplishments of the career college sector of higher …
The current regulatory environment and mounting pressures on outcomes are impacting career colleges across the country.
To better understand the challenges and priorities of these schools, Penn Foster surveyed (with outreach assistance from Career College Central) career college executives on their 2014 activities and their outlook for 2015. Below are some excerpts from the survey.
The year …
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Career College Central is helping Penn Foster as it conducts a survey of career colleges to create a state of the industry report.
The report will help uncover how success is measured, where more resources are needed, and what marketing initiatives are most effective.
Career colleges sharing this information with each other can …
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A New America analysis of the net price of colleges — tuition and fees minus grants and scholarships — shows that hundreds of schools expect the families of low-income students to pay half of their yearly earnings to send their child to college.
The U.S. News & World Report college rankings are really …
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The Center for Consumer Freedom announced the release of a new report exposing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) suspected pay-to-play arrangements with the for-profit education industry.
The report shows new IRS filings that suggest CREW is guilty of the same pay-to-play practices it decries when committed by other groups.Between 2010 …
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Strayer Education shares have soared 75% this year. The company offers accredited certificate, associate, bachelor's, and master's degree programs at 100 campuses across the country and online.
DeVry Education Group is up over 20% while Capella, which mostly specializes in online graduate education, has rallied 13% in the past three months. This performance …
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It's no secret that the majority of higher education institutions continue to be challenged by a declining pool of potential students often leading to a decline in enrollment. Achieving desired outcomes has become even more difficult, requiring education leaders to go above and beyond to drive their schools success.
To help school leaders …
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The weaknesses in basic skills occur despite a relatively high level of education. Among comparison countries the U.S. had one of the smallest proportions of adults with less than high school education, and one of the largest with more than high school.
There are few signs of improvement. Today, adults in the U.S. …