Understanding Financial Aid & Encouraging Inventors
January 26, 2018 – Here’s our weekly roundup of education news you may have missed. School budgets and exposure to inventors are discussed in K-12 communities. Issues surrounding financial aid receive coverage in higher ed.
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Elementary & Secondary Education:
- “Since underrepresented groups are likely to have fewer interactions with inventors through their families and neighborhoods, differences in exposure play a large role in these disparities,” state researchers Alexander Bell, John Van Reenen, Raj Chetty, and Xavier Jaravel in The Conversation.
- Jack Schneider, Assistant Professor of Education at the College of the Holy Cross, writes about why equal funding for public schools does not ensure equal outcomes in a piece for The Atlantic.
Higher Education:
- The lack of a standard template for financial award letters makes calculating the price of college incredibly perplexing for students and their families, states The Washington Post’s Jeff Selingo.
- CLASP provides recommendations for ensuring college affordability in a renewed version of the Higher Education Act (HEA).
- Education Week and Inside Higher Ed both discuss the increasing use of performance assessments and student portfolios in college admissions.
Cooke Chronicle:
- Research from our “Equal Talents, Unequal Opportunities” report is cited in The 74’s coverage of a proposal for education savings accounts in Wisconsin.
- The Aspen Institute shares updates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program (C-STEP), which was started through funding from the Cooke Foundation’s Community College Transfer Initiative.
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