How Can I Make My Private Student Loan More Affordable?

While there are numerous programs available for federal loan forgiveness, there are not many options for private student loan forgiveness. Students who have taken federal loans have more flexible terms due to the loans being connected to the government and, therefore, connected to public sector forgiveness opportunities to help aid career shortage regions. If you feel like you’re drowning in private student loan debt, you are not alone. Don’t let...

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Education Department Announces Plans To Erase Student Debt For Corinthian Students

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will erase much of the debt of students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges, officials announced Monday, as part of a new plan that could cost taxpayers as much as $3.6 billion. Corinthian Colleges was one of the largest for-profit schools when it nearly collapsed last year and became a symbol of fraud in the world of higher education and student loans. According to investigators, Corinthian...

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Michelle Obama Delivers Emotional Commencement Address At Chicago High School

“I know the struggles many of you face, how you walk the long way home to avoid the gangs; how you fight to concentrate on your schoolwork when there's too much noise at home; how you keep it together when your family's having a hard time making ends meet. But more importantly, I know the strength of this community.” Those were the words spoken by first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday to the graduates of King College Prep High School...

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Nevada Abandons Public Education

Nevada has made its bid for a gold medal in the race to the bottom of the barrel for public education. The state's GOP legislature, with help from Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education (a name that belongs in Orwellian annals right next to "Peacekeeper Missile"), has created an all-state voucher system. This is the full deal. No foot-in-the-door program for poor, disabled, or trapped-in-failing-school students. Next fall every...

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This Author Called For A Student Loan Boycott, And CNBC Was Not Having It

Lee Siegel, an author who defaulted on his student loan debts, appeared on CNBC’s morning talk show "Squawk Box" on Monday to defend his choice. It would have been hard for him to find a less sympathetic audience. Facing the finance program's three co-hosts, Siegel presented an argument rooted in the world of business: Many of the country’s most famous multimillionaires, including Donald Trump and Ahmed Zayat, the owner of Triple Crown-winning...

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Buzz Aldrin to students: You, too, should reach for the moon and beyond

Facebook Buzz Aldrin Elementary students surround the school's namesake after he talked as part of the 20th anniversary of the school June 8, 2015 in Reston, Va. Clockwise from Astronaut Buzz Aldrin are Dante Tosada, Thomas Cosby, Maddie Brockman, Cadance Godshalk, Sydney Pina, Gunner Philbert and Carioux Thomas. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) When Gina Ross was a young girl, she watched on television as U.S. astronauts landed on the...

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Bill Nye the Science Guy Talks Keeping Teens Interested in STEM

If wearing a tie-dye lab coat gets students interested in science, technology, engineering and math, that's what teachers should do. Winners of one the largest K-12 science competitions showcased their projects to industry executives and members of Congress in Washington last week. For some high schoolers, science isn't an abstract topic they learn about in class, but the key to solving problems that affect the globe. "If you're...

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This Is Where School Funding Is The Least 'Fair,' According To New Reports

In Mississippi's Carroll County school district, there are no advanced placement courses, no foreign language classes and not enough textbooks for children to take home at night. Until last year, students on the high school football team had to change clothes in a makeshift room that previously functioned as a chicken coop. Two years ago, the district's superintendent, Billy Joe Ferguson, cut his own salary from $87,000 to $18,000 in order to...

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What I Wish I Could Write in My Students' Yearbooks

Do you remember Melissa Joan Hart's character in 1998's romantic teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait? She was the one who frantically -- and annoyingly -- ran around the party trying to get every last person to sign her yearbook....

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