Cannabis Use Greatest Among Lower-Income And Less Educated By Dan Witters of Gallup Nine percent of U.S. adults report that they use cannabis regularly, defined as at least 10 days of consumption per month. Regular usage differs by education and income, with the highest rates seen among those with a high school education or less (13%) and those living in households earning less than $24,000 per year (16%). These consumption levels are about three times the rates found among...
South Texas College has announced a tuition assistance program that officials say should make enrollment there essentially tuition free for all students. Such a program can help many Rio Grande Valley residents attain academic degrees or professional training and certification they might not be able to afford otherwise.
'The Department of Education's response raises doubts about their commitment to nonpartisan use of taxpayer money, as it explicitly plans to use these funds for voter registration.'
A degree in accounting isn’t needed to see college and university costs don’t pencil out.
To the editor: Columnist Michael Hiltzik asks a question on student loan debt relief that is fundamental to the direction of this country and should dominate economic policy in the 2024 election. ("Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes," column, April 16) For far too long, Republicans have maligned any form of student debt relief under the guise that it cost the taxpayers in order to fund "worthless gender studies degrees." They...
Students with surnames later in the alphabet are given lower grades. Teachers might get more irritable the further they get through the alphabet
Most families take out student loans to cover the rising cost of college. A new report found that incoming freshmen may have $37,000 in debt by graduation.
As is so often the case with Bidenomics, even good news is bad news because of the upward inflationary pressure.
Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student performance post-pandemic. Educators strongly endorse tutoring, when done right, and believe it can help students make real academic gains. In an effort to spur the tutoring movement, the Biden administration recently called on […]
Good news/bad news in Mandiant report, UnitedHealth admits paying a ransomware gang, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Wednesday April 24th, 2024. I'm Howard Solomon. Security teams may be getting better at finding hackers lurking in their IT systems. That's according to Mandiant's latest annual M-Trends report. The mean time an attacker
Sonnet Xu writes a letter with heartfelt advice addressed to incoming CS students.
The decision to move away from using standardized test scores in college applications will go down as one of the greatest follies in the history of higher education, and institutions are waking up to it. For decades the SAT or the ACT was a nonnegotiable part of the college application process. But that all changed […]