Families are saving for college, but it won't be enough, report says (Cleveland.com) – A Sallie Mae survey has found that only 50% of families are currently saving for their children’s college education, but with an average savings of just $21,416 these families are still going to have to rely on financial aid and student loans to send their child to college.
NIH Joins NSF Program to Teach Scientists to Think Like Entrepreneurs (The Chronicle of Higher Education) – The NIH will now be working with the NSF to use and promote the NSF’s I-Corps program. This program provides entrepreneurial training to university researchers to help them form companies around the products and ideas that they have developed.
State Lawmakers Ramp Up Attention to Data Privacy (Education Week) –As concerns over student data privacy gain attention, state administrators and lawmakers are working to better define who can access the data and what data can be collected. So far the 2014 legislative session has already seen 83 bills passed in 32 states that concern student data.
SAP, IBM and JP Morgan invest in Stem education in high schools (The Guardian) – Last year private companies invested $350B in training programs, 29 times more than the government’s $12B. Much of this spending went to improving STEM education to help bridge the skills gap, with IBM and SAP going as far as to open their own high schools to offer more direct hands on training.
District Report Cards Negatively Impacted By Students Who ‘Opt Out' Of State Tests (Gongwer Ohio) – While parents are allowed to have their students opt out of Ohio’s standardized tests, doing so will negatively affect their district’s report card, as well as potentially hold back their student if they fail to take and pass the Ohio Graduation Test or the 3rd grade reading portion of the Ohio Achievement Assessment.
