Your Money Adviser
Stumbling Blocks in Reducing Balance on a Student Loan
By ANN CARRNS
Difficulties in having payments properly applied to a student loan balance is a common complaint to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Bashir Mason, the youngest Division I men’s basketball head coach in the nation, also teaches elementary students at the Petrides School in Staten Island, N.Y.
Bashir Mason, 29, is balancing his duties as men’s basketball coach at Wagner with student teaching, his final requirement for a master’s in education.
Difficulties in having payments properly applied to a student loan balance is a common complaint to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday that he has agreed to release $45 million for the Philadelphia schools.
The state Public Health Council voted Wednesday to stop automatically sending letters home with public school students about their weight.
The Supreme Court heard arguments about whether Michigan’s voters violated the Constitution by forbidding race-conscious admissions plans at the state’s public universities.
Government efforts to silence a Peking University professor who has criticized Communist rule come as China’s colleges are ambitiously seeking respect abroad as great centers of learning.
In the face of declining state financing, universities in Europe are beginning to foster links with former students as a step toward encouraging donations.
As deadlines for early decision applications near, students worry they have missed something or messed up, while colleges face delays in reviewing applications.
Providers of educational technology can mine the data of young children, but privacy groups are trying to set up barriers.
The political upheaval sweeping the Arab world has pushed Gulf governments to offer more jobs to citizens, but they lack the experience of the expatriates they are supposed to replace.
A busy schedule is not bad for children as long as their well-being is kept in mind, experts say.
Tutors With Computers, an Austin company, is an object of parents’ and schools’ complaints as the state stops tutoring services that came with No Child Left Behind.
Educators worry that new standards in January will make it harder for young adults to pass the high school equivalency exam.
The 10 video lectures, which will be offered free, bring the graduate-level class of a Stanford finance professor to the general public.
There were mixed feelings in Pakistan as speculation grew that the teenager, who was shot by the Taliban for championing education for girls, might win a Nobel.
Yeshiva University said Friday that a Yeshiva College teacher was “no longer employed by the university” following news reports that he had been previously convicted of lewdness with minors.
A day after they left thousands of Boston schoolchildren stranded, drivers were back, but schools warned parents to be ready with contingency plans in case of another walkout.
An infusion of $550,000 in public money will help Common Cents, the charity that operates the drive known as the penny harvest and educates students on charitable giving, to avoid shutting down this year.
Mr. Dungan, who specialized in Latin American affairs as a presidential aide, later increased the size and prestige of New Jersey’s higher education system.
John and Laura Arnold of Houston donated the money for education programs in six states: Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi.
The schools worry about what would happen under a city run by Bill de Blasio, a harsh critic who wants to start charging them rent for using city space.
As advocates of higher school funding brought their request to the State Supreme Court, the conservative Legislature vowed to defy any orders that it felt trampled on its sovereignty.
A new report says workers in the United States are falling behind their global peers in key measures, despite the fact that American employers pay a large wage premium for skilled labor.
The trustees of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles voted to drop elective abortions from health care plans offered to faculty and staff members in 2014.
The Kyoto court ordered the far-right Zaitokukai group to pay $120,000 for staging demonstrations characterized as racist, usually against Koreans and Chinese, at an ethnic Korean school.
Told that blind people could not do math, Dr. Nemeth developed a customized code that even captured the complexities of differential calculus.
Schools across the country are looking at new online ways to integrate and analyze information about their students. But privacy advocates remain wary.
The U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission’s American college fair was once a sleepy single-day event. No longer. This year, more than 5,000 visitors registered for the fair on Sept. 27 and 28.
School-age children, from 5 to 17 years old, make up 35 percent of the Syrian refugee population in Jordan.
Many Americans lack even basic knowledge about personal finances, but just adding more formal education about the subject may not be enough.
Hint: The answer has more to do with “The Big Bang Theory” than with longstanding theories about men’s so-called natural aptitude.
Filmed over 13 years, a coming-of-age story of an African-American boy who attends an elite Manhattan prep school.
The latest trend in college applications: creative YouTube videos that help admissions offices understand who you are. Students, send a link to your video to edlife@nytimes.com. A selection will be featured with the Nov. 3 issue of Education Life.
Sneak preview of the new SAT and digital ACT. And why students are taking — and retaking — both exams.
Back to school? Students submitted photographs of themselves and where they come from.
Who’s a 2? Who’s a 5? Ranking a pool of Berkeley hopefuls in a sea of ambiguities.
Some girls who play basketball at Carroll Academy, a school run by a juvenile court in Tennessee, find refuge from family problems of drug addiction and domestic assault.
An examination of some of the major issues in the 2013 New York City mayoral race.
Despite the widespread use of affirmative action at elite colleges, blacks and Latinos are much more likely to attend colleges with low graduation rates.
A complete summary of demographics and student performance over the past decade for every school in New York.
October 17, 2013
October 17, 2013
A blog about homework, friends, grades, bullying, baby sitters, the work-family balance and much more.
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