The Chronicle of Higher Education: The for-profit’s new venture New Charter University — sidesteps the loan system by setting tuition so cheap that most students shouldn’t need to borrow. The price: $796 per semester, or $199 a month, for as many classes as they can finish. “This is not buying a house,” says Mr. Wade, […]
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When I was a kid, teachers would confiscate all kinds of stuff from unruly students. Knives, radios, yo-yos, you name it. If a kid could buy it, chances are that there was at least one of them in every teachers’ junk drawer. Today, in the age of cellphones, having your property confiscated by the teacher
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Inspired by his time at school, Ryan Stevens put his business degree to work. He set up a website that allows students to sell their notes and study materials, as well as communicate with classmates within the community reports the Los Angeles Times. The site, NoteUtopia.com, which was launched in August, is intended to function
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MIT Technology Review: Ask Ariel Diaz why he’s taking on the college textbook industry and he’ll tell you, “Quaternions.†Quaternions are a number system used for calculating three-dimensional motion, popular in computer graphics. And Diaz needed a crash course to help him with a consulting gig after his online video platform startup, Youcastr, had failed.
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60 Minutes: One of the wealthiest, best-educated American entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel, isn’t convinced college is worth the cost. With only half of recent U.S. college graduates in full-time jobs, and student loans now at $1 trillion, Thiel has come up with his own small-scale solution: pay a couple dozen of the nation’s most promising students
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Forbes: Alfred E. Mann, for which the Institute is named, is an American inventor himself. As a medical device entrepreneur who helped create the pacemaker, insulin pumps, and cochlear implants, he became a billionaire. With his wealth, he decided to give back by founding institutes that foster medical technology creation. Three Alfred E. Mann Institutes
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DavisPatch: Laurie Coffroth looked at the sorry state of funding for public education and saw a business opportunity. The Elk Grove mother of three recently launched Cash for Classrooms, which charges local businesses to have their coupons inserted into students’ backpacks. Cash for Classrooms will funnel part of the proceeds back to schools. With California’s
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Parents have spent years complaining about the lunch options offered to kids. Instead of complaining about what their kids ate at school, Debbie Blacher and Samantha Gotlib started Wholesome Tummies to offer a better option. “Over some barbecue, we discussed our shared passion for healthy foods and childhood nutrition,†Gotlib said. “We discussed the lack
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When schools started pushing hard to keep cellphones out, Vernon Alcoser saw an opportunity reports the NY Daily News. For just a dollar per day students can leave their cellphone at Vernon’s van and pick it up once school is out. “It’s better than trying to sneak your phone in,” said Tatyana James, a freshman
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According to The Star Tribune, school lockers are becoming the latest venue for bombarding kids with advertising. Just what that will look like is on display at the north suburban Centennial school administration building: four lockers wrapped in a bubblegum pink ad for the Mall of America’s “Underwater Adventures” aquarium. On Nov. 1, the school
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