DC Shuttle … House Begins Work on Student Data Privacy Legislation. The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education of the House Committee on Education and Workforce held a… Read more »
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Capital Sorts Through Obama Proposals
DC Shuttle … White House Drops Plan to Tax 529 College Savings Accounts. White House officials announced that President Obama would drop his proposal to tax 529 college savings accounts,… Read more »
How Obama’s Tuition-Free Community College Plan Would Affect One State
President Obama started off the year with a proposal to make a community college education as “universal” as high school by making the associate degree or first two years of… Read more »
Obama Calls for Free Community College
DC Shuttle … President proposes free community college. President Obama announced a plan to make two years of community college free, called America’s College Promise. The first question asked by… Read more »
Cyber-Gap
Within the information technology sector, cybersecurity is considered its own supersector. As information becomes increasingly digitized and a growing array of transactions can be completed in the cloud, people,… Read more »
Congress Proposes Modest Increases to Student Aid
DC Shuttle … Spending bill proposes few changes for education. The appropriations bill introduced in Congress will provide slight tweaks and modest increases to student aid and other programs. The… Read more »
Underemployed? Key Labor Market Think Tank at Northeastern Shuts Down
The influential Northeastern University think tank that authored several NEJHE articles in recent decades ended it operations this month. The closing of the Center for Labor Market Studies follows the… Read more »
To Close Middle-Skills Gap, Improve Community College Outcomes
Over the past four years, there has been intense talk about the middle-skills gap in New England. In Massachusetts—from the governor, often flanked by business leaders, to the commissioner of… Read more »
Do Employers Value the Bachelor’s Degree Too Much?
The debate over the value of a college education appears to be settled. Not only do employers value employees with a bachelor’s degree, they may actually value them too much…. Read more »
Warren Pushes “Fair Shot” for Borrowers
DC Shuttle … GAO report and Senate committee hearing on student loan debt. The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing titled “Indebted for Life: Older Americans and Student… Read more »