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The Biden administration announced a plan to extend tuition breaks to future teachers and do away with GPA requirements for grant recipients to increase access for students of color. "The proposed plan also aims to increase the access that students from low-income backgrounds and students of color have to comprehensive teacher preparation,” a press release from the Education Department says. The Department of Education oversees the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) grant program, which administers tuition breaks to students studying to go into education so long as they agree to teach at schools in underperforming areas...

Two Black high school students in Mississippi are reportedly having to share their prestigious honor with their white classmates. According to Mississippi Today, West Point High, which is located in the eastern portion of the state, is facing backlash for changing its class ranking system after it announced Ikeria Washington as valedictorian and Layla Temple as salutatorian for the Class of 2021 on May 24. On Thursday (June 3), the school wrote that it recognizes students with both the highest Quality Point Average (QPA) and Grade Point Average (GPA).

A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average. Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade. “He’s stressed and I am too. I told him I’m probably going to start crying. I don’t know what...

A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average. Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade. As we dig deeper into her son’s records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells,...

I’m a fan of these Campus Reform clips but I have to admit that when I first saw this I wasn’t sure it was a good premise. The idea here is to find some students on the campus of Florida International University who support socialism (not that hard to do it seems) and then introduce a twist. The twist in this clip is to apply the concept of ‘sharing the wealth’ to the student’s own GPA. Would they be willing to share their own high grades with someone who isn’t doing as well in school?Again, I wasn’t convinced this...

A four-page memo circulating in Congress that reveals alleged United States government surveillance abuses is being described by lawmakers as “shocking,” “troubling” and “alarming,” with one congressman likening the details to KGB activity in Russia. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said: “I believe the consequence of its release will be major changes in people currently working at the FBI and the Department of Justice,” he said, referencing DOJ officials Rod Rosenstein and Bruce Ohr.

Traditionally a 4.0 is considered a perfect grade point average, but Dhara Patel, a high school senior at Plant City High School in Hillsborough County, Fla., has earned an off-the-charts 10.03 GPA. This is good news considering the new link between GPAs and salary. A recent study by researchers at the University of Miami states that a one-point increase in high school GPA raises annual earnings in adulthood by around 12 percent for men and 14 percent for women. The study also shows that even a one-point increase in GPA doubles the likelihood of students completing college—from 21 percent to...

A California college student is conducting a social experiment where he’s trying to get his peers to sign a petition in favor of distributing grade point averages to show how the federal government distributes wealth. Oliver Darcy, a recent college graduate, proposes that students with good grades contribute their GPA to their academically sluggish friends. He argues that this is how the federal government takes wealth from the country’s high wage earners and distributes it to the low income earners. “They all earn their GPA,” said Darcy in an interview with "Fox and Friends." “So we asked them if they’d...

Earlier in the week, I posted a video of reactions from students when asking them to sign a petition calling for the redistribution of GPAs. I thought I would also upload some of the raw, unedited conversations I had with the students and post them here for you guys to see. Enjoy. Original Video - http://youtu.be/lOyaJ2UI7SsRaw Clip 1 - http://youtu.be/vE600I1Js78Raw Clip 2 - http://youtu.be/dLTh7EI6rzgRaw Clip 3 - http://youtu.be/1iW5b2li1Yw

“By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn” -Unknown So what happens when open minded progressive students get a chance to put their mouth where other people's money is? (See the video embedded at the original post here or at YouTube.)To a person every student opposes the idea, and thinks redistributing GPA is different from income. Why is it different? These girly boys are not man enough to admit their hypocrisy, that's why.The "progressive" tax comes knocking on their academic door and their "intellect" can't handle the confrontation. It's so simple, if a high GPA is the key...

Many students believe that it is moral to confiscate money from hard-working Americans and entrepreneurs and give it to those who didn't earn it, yet don't support the same philosophy when it is applied to their GPA scores. Here are some of the responses we got when asking students to sign a petition call for GPA redistribution: http://youtu.be/lOyaJ2UI7Ss

TAMPA — Head hanging low, he stood near an East Tampa street corner for nearly four hours Wednesday afternoon. James Mond III, 15, wore a sign around his neck with a message: "I did 4 questions on my FCAT and said I wasn't going to do it … GPA 1.22 … honk if I need (an) education." People honked. Lots of people. This was his mother's idea. Ronda Holder, 33, a Tampa hair stylist, said she wanted James to realize the importance of an education, afraid he will otherwise wind up on the street. "I don't want any of my...

Grapevine High School senior Anjali Datta holds the highest grade-point average of the 471 students graduating from Grapevine High School this year. In fact, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials believe her GPA of 5.898 may be the highest in the high school's history.

Grapevine High School senior Anjali Datta holds the highest grade-point average of the 471 students graduating from Grapevine High School this year. In fact, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials believe her GPA of 5.898 may be the highest in the high school's history. It's still not enough to make her the valedictorian, which brings a one-year college scholarship from the state. Her closest competitor's GPA is 5.64. No one disputes that she's the top student in her class numerically. The problem rests with another number entirely. Anjali rocketed through high school in only three years. But a school district policy states: "The...

The overall grade point average at the University of Colorado has fallen in three years because the school is cracking down on grade inflation... Student GPAs fell from 2.99 in 2004 to 2.94 last year, ... "I think that's a fairly significant change," DiStefano said. "It's going in the right direction." The drop represents the first decline in grades at CU in more than a decade. From 1993 to 2004, GPAs rose 4.5 percent. The drop in GPA isn't because kids are dumber; students today are as bright as those in the past, officials said. CU knows this because it...

Minority advocates say they will turn out in force at this week's meeting of the University of California Board of Regents in an attempt to kill a proposal they fear will make it harder for black and Latino students to gain admission. At issue is a faculty recommendation to raise the minimum grade point average from a B- to a B in order to shrink the pool of California high school students eligible to attend one of UC's nine undergraduate campuses. "The regents must end their sordid practice of shutting their doors to the students of California, especially black and...

<p>There was a media firestorm when it was "discovered" that the United States was only going to allow American and allied companies to bid on $18.6 billion of Iraq reconstruction projects. Yet, this was old news. When the Pentagon set up its Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, its mandate was to make contracts only with American firms. The U.S. Agency for International Development had similar rules. As USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios said in April, "Some countries have complained that they were not invited to bid for these projects, which are funded by U.S. taxpayers." He then noted that "foreign aid agencies in most countries try to award contracts to their own companies, supporting business at home while delivering assistance abroad -- just as Americans want to see their tax dollars support jobs at home."</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. There was a media firestorm last week when it was “discovered” that the United States was only going to allow American firms and those from allied countries to bid on $18.6 billion of Iraq reconstruction projects.  Yet, this was old news. When the Pentagon set up its Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, its mandate was to make contracts only with American firms.  The U.S.  Agency for International Development had similar rules.  As USAID administrator Andrew Natsios said last April,.  “Some countries have complained that they were not invited to bid...

In the heady days of the late 20th century, the best way to get ahead was to slap a dot-com after your name. Internet start-ups were all the rage, and with the stock market surging, they seemed headed for a brilliant future. For example, Boo.com raised almost $120 million of venture capital in 1999. Pets.com went public in February 2000, and pocketed $76 million on its first day of trading. But when the high-tech bubble burst, investors quickly learned which companies enjoyed real value and which were empty shells. By September 2000 Boo.com, Pets.com and dozens of other Internet companies were...