WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is cementing a plan to allow millions of Americans to further slash their monthly student-debt bills, a move to stem defaults that risks raising taxpayer costs for the government’s burgeoning student-loan portfolio. The Education Department will formally propose rules Wednesday to expand eligibility for a program called Pay As You Earn, which sets borrowers’ monthly …

Myanmar will hold multi-party general elections on November 8, Union Election Commission sources said on Wednesday. A formal announcement will be made later in the day, the sources said, adding that a meeting on the election was underway, Xinhua news agency reported. The upcoming elections will choose representatives to the next term of parliament, which will form a new government …

Colorado has a history of conquering seemingly impossible heights, and the state’s new education funding law—which aligns public education spending with incentives supporting improved outcomes—only solidifies that conviction. Signed by Governor John Hickenlooper in May, this law enables Colorado to partner with philanthropists and service providers and make use of social impact bonds as a kind of performance-based funding. The …

NORWALK — The District B Democratic Committee endorsed several incumbents and one newcomer during its meeting Monday evening. Migdalia Rivas, a District B Democrat and current member of the Norwalk Board of Education, was endorsed by voting members of the District B Democrats. Rivas has nine years of experience on the Norwalk Board of Education. District B Democrats nominated her …

I recently wrote a scintillating essay on the best way to adjust household income growth to take inflation into account. If you loved that one—and you both know who you are—the next 3,000 words are going to be pure bliss. The conclusion of the cost-of-living essay was that researchers looking at income growth should use a specific price index—the “Personal …

Sioux City, Iowa (ABC9 News) – The battle over education funding in Iowa got kicked up a notch by democrats Monday, but it’s unlikely thier demand for a special session of the legislature will ever happen. Last week Governor Branstad used a line item veto to cut $55 million dollars of one-time education funding out of the 2016 fiscal budget.  …

A BARRAGE of funding cuts is placing hundreds of teaching and lecturing jobs in Yorkshire at risk and undermining one of the region’s most successful education sectors, college and union bosses have warned. Further Education colleges will see their adult education budgets dropping by 24 per cent from this September – resulting in course closures and redundancies across Yorkshire. “At …

The education system is “obsolete” and fails to reflect the way creative people work, according to trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, who is introducing a new department of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons School of Design in New York (+ interview). Edelkoort has been appointed dean of the school’s new Hybrid Design Studies department, which will encourage inter-disciplinary collaboration. “Our goal is to …

A University of Newcastle honours student is hoping to deliver a robust and affordable satellite platform to the local education sector with his space age start-up. Andreas Antoniades has turned a research project for his thesis into a start-up, dubbed ProtoSAT, which aims to offer students the chance to research new ideas and uses for small satellite technology using fully-functional …

Education in India is considered largely a public good. Central and State Governments therefore owe a responsibility for providing education to the citizens. Education is also on concurrent list of the constitution. The aforesaid responsibility is accordingly shared by both the Governments. This necessitates an effective co-ordination mechanism to bring about conformity. Education ecosystem has a chain-link effect from one …