The D.C. Council gave final approval Tuesday to a new taxpayer-funded college scholarship program known as D.C. Promise, which will offer high school graduates up to $7,500 per year to help pay for higher education. David A. Catania (I-At Large), who i
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as "prevar
Continue reading >>Students at the American University in Washington, D.C. — our nation’s capital and the center of American political activity and bustle — can’t name a single one of the 100 U.S. senators. Dan Joseph, a correspondent for MRCTV, interviewed students at t
Continue reading >>Former Yale University President Richard C. Levin is taking on a new role in education. The man who lead Yale for 20 years will in mid-April become the chief executive officer of the two-year-old online MOOC provider Coursera. Coursera offers free
Continue reading >>Police at the University of Mississippi have issued an all-campus crime alert after a man exposed himself twice to female students on Thursday morning. The two women who say they witnessed the drawers-dropping flasher firsthand have described him as a
Continue reading >>New details have emerged in the killing of 23-year-old Texas college student Cameron Redus, who was shot five times — and once in the back — by a police officer during a traffic stop. Redus, a student at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Anto
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