Student loan debt
“In the second quarter of 2024, 2.4 million borrowers carried a federal student loan balance between $100,000 and $200,000, up from 1.8 million people who owed that much during the same period in 2017, according to new data by the…
Category Education
Private Ed Compensation
“The President earned nearly $23 million in 2021, her last full year as president of the University of Pennsylvania, according to federal tax filings.” — The Chronicle of Higher Education
Discrimination in education tech
According to Hechinger … “In education, Black and Hispanic students face inequities in schools every day, whether through disciplinary actions, course placement or culturally irrelevant content. Thoughtless expansion of tech tools into the classroom can exacerbate the discrimination Black and…
Education and inflation
“The chancellors of the University of California’s nine undergraduate campuses will each get raises under an action taken by the university’s board of regents. The board voted Thursday to approve spending a total of about $800,000 to give raises to…
Racial divide
“San Dieguito Union High School District Superintendent Cheryl James-Ward has apologized for remarks that stereotyped Asian students as high-achievers from high-income families. Citing data that showed Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese students getting fewer D and F grades than…