For those not familiar, the FAFSA is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and is required by practically all universities and other scholarship funders as well as student loan applications. According to a recent article in the New York Times, some families have become so intimidated by the form, that they are hiring professional assistants to help them.
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students appeared before a federal judge to provide testimony that they are still being cheated of an appropriate education … If there is to be a “change we can believe in”, my hope is that is will be to improve education for all students [...]
While education may be dear to President Bush’s heart some questions still linger about this legislation. 1) Why does NCLB not fund schools to make necessary changes to personnel and curriculum? 2) Why are schools that show improvement still punished? 3) Why are “failing” schools closed and re-opened by private schools using public funds? 4) Why are there no consistent guidelines from between states, or even between districts on how to measure progress? 5) Why does the law equate testing with teaching? … this law was designed to punish our schools, not to improve them. [...] Hello all – this is the first posting of a new blog on education. This is not my first foray into the blogosphere, though I have been on a year-long hiatus. You can find some of my old entries, here. Like the previous blog, this one aims to focus on issues of access to education, school [...] |
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