- This Veterans Day sees the first field reports on the new GI Bill, effective since August 2009. According to the American Council on Education, over 300,000 vets took advantage of the expanded program last year.
- (Well-off) parents struggling to balance work, home, and child-rearing can now hire homework helpers. Like tutors without subject-matter expertise, often their main task is simply keeping John Jr. away from the Wii until he finishes his homework.
- Credit recovery programs have once again made headlines, with the focus this time on their online variety. While there’s much that is praise-worthy about programs that shepherd students across the K-12 finish line, there are also reasons to be skeptical.
- One perturbed professor hit the streets in protest of NCLB this summer—literally. Jesse Turner walked 400 miles from New Brunswick, CT to Washington, D.C. contra the “failed education policy.”
