It's the latest snapshot of the growing burden of student debt and it's another discouraging one: Two-thirds of the national college class of 2011 finished school with loan debt, and those who borrowed walked off the graduation stage owing an average of $26,600 -- up about 5 percent from the class before.The latest figures are calculated in a report out Thursday from the California-based Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), and likely underestimate the problem in some ways because they don't include most ... more→
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High school grads face grim job prospects
(MoneyWatch) Although recent college graduates are struggling to find work in a labor market battered by the Great Recession, job prospects are even worse for another group: high school graduates. Only 3 in 10 high school graduates from the classes of 2006 through 2011 have found full-time employment, according to a new Rutgers University report. The numbers are particularly dire for students who graduated after the financial crisis erupted in 2008, with only 16 percent who graduated during the recession employed full-time. By comparison, ... more→
Study: Stay-at-Home Moms at Greater Risk for Depression Than Working Moms
Can part-time work increase the chances of full-time happiness for modern moms? So suggests a new study published by the American Psychological Association. “In all cases with significant differences in maternal well-being, such as conflict between work and family or parenting, the comparison favored part-time work over full-time or not working,” the study’s lead author, Cheryl Buehler, a professor of human development and family studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, said in a statement released by the APA. Buehler and co-author Marion O’Brien, a colleague ... more→
Many teachers have little or no experience
As children around the country settle in for the new school year, millions of them are sharing more than desks, sandwiches and sniffles. Chances are good that they are being taught by teachers with little or no experience. Over two decades, the odds that a child will be taught by a new teacher in the nation's 3 million K-12 public school teachers have increased dramatically. In 1987–88, the median teacher had 14 years of experience, and the mode of teacher experience -- or the most ... more→
US anthropology student gains Fulbright-Bristol postgraduate award
Anthropologist Jessica Galea has received a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship Award Committee to conduct research at the University of Bristol in the state of health of populations medieval sites. Since October 2011, Galea will work towards a MPhil under the direction of Dr Kate Robson Brown in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. His project, entitled 'orbitalia cribra as a marker of health and the situation in medieval Britain, is to determine a new method to ... more→
