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The (Non-Monetary) Value of a College Degree College graduates smoke less and are likelier to exercise than other Americans. And they're civically engaged, the College Board says in a new report touting public benefits of higher education. By   With all the recent focus on accountability and "value added" by a college degree, it's still common for a conversation on this topic to come down to individual earning potential. And a new report from the College Board has plenty of data to back up the well-worn claim that college graduates can expect significantly higher wages over their lifetime ...

Why Some Veterans Should Consider Trade School Instead of College Airman 1st Class Tyler Steenbeke-Notaro welds brackets together to mount on the base perimeter wall. (U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Megan Myhre) For many veterans, even those with GI Bill benefits, the price of going to a traditional four-year university can come with extreme sticker shock. Paying potentially tens of thousands of dollars over four (or more) years to study for a degree that doesn't even guarantee a job in the field can seem like a risky bet for separating veterans. "Some people think if you have the GI Bill, y...

Temple University graduate Ewan Johnson's mother borrowed so he could go to college. Growing up in a small town near Trenton, N.J., Ewan Johnson said there were birthdays when his mother couldn't afford to buy presents for him and his sister, but she did her best by baking cookies. There were times when she worked overtime in her job helping people with disabilities. “I come from a low economic background. Going to college was literally my only way out,” Johnson says. But like many students, Johnson said, the maximum in Pell Grants he received wasn't enough to pay for living expenses and...

Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan Would Help Millions of California Students Millions of Californians could get one of the biggest transfers of money in this country’s history as lawmakers and the incoming president duel over competing plans to rid the nation of ten of billions of dollars in student debt. If President-elect Joe Biden follows through with his campaign promise to forgive $10,000 in federal student debt, as many as 1.3 million Californians could see the balance on their federal college loans totally wiped out. The plan, which would make good on a once fringe progressive goal of ...

OPINION: Alarm Bells Ringing on Education Technology Dec 28, 2020 at 09:52 am by WGNS OP-ED by JC Bowman and Scott Cepicky with the Professional Educators of TN   The 2020 Netflix movie, The Social Dilemma, explores the growth of social media and the damage it has caused to society. It features interviews with many former executives and professionals from tech companies and social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple who sounded the alarm on their industry. The Social Dilemma asserts that tech companies exploit and manipulate their users for f...