What students are the biggest slackers? A report released on Thursday by the National Survey for Student Engagement suggests that business majors may have earned that title. In the survey, which polled college students at hundreds of colleges and universities earlier this year, concluded that business majors and social science majors spend the least amount [...]
Life Skills challenges closure recommendation from Denver Public Schools
The one school Denver Public Schools recommended for closure this year — an alternative charter school run by a for-profit company — is publicly challenging the district on its decision. “I believe Life Skills is making progress,” said Life Skills Center High School principal Santiago Lopez. “I was pretty caught off guard.” After months of [...]
In the news: outdoor art in Sunnyside
WBOYs Kelly Rippin reported on a collaboration between landscape architecture students and Sunnyside Up: A West Virginia University landscape architecture class has partnered with Sunnyside Up to showcase an outdoor art project. Most of the displays are on the rail trail along the river. Another is in the heart of Sunnyside at Grant Avenue and [...]
GOP Contenders (Minus Romney, Perry) Debate Education
With two frontrunners noticeably missing, GOP presidential hopefuls took up the issue of education and continued to call for scaling back, or eliminating, the federal role in K-12 schools. Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Herman Cain joined the Education and Election 2012 Presidential Forum in New York last night, sponsored by the College [...]