Outsourcing Teaching/Tutoring of American Education

Its not a new idea but it is coming of age. Recently I read an article about a company who will be tutoring you kids—and this takes the idea of outsourcing to an entirely different level. A company called TutorVista has gained business with US schools to tutor rural...

More than 70 Million Adults Want to Head Back to School

Degrees of Opportunity, a new national study of the attitudes of adult Americans toward continuing their education, indicates that more than half of American adults age 25 to 60 would like to pursue additional education—the equivalent of more than 70 million adult...
USA Funds Awards Grant for Mississippi College-Planning Web Site

USA Funds Awards Grant for Mississippi College-Planning Web Site

USA Funds® awards an $80,000 grant to develop a Web site to help Mississippi middle- and high-school students and their parents prepare for, apply to and pay for postsecondary-education programs. The Web site will serve as a comprehensive clearinghouse of information...
Tracking the Success of Private-for Profit Educational Institutions

Tracking the Success of Private-for Profit Educational Institutions

This is the first of many posts about private-for-profit educational institutions and their strategic moves. Strayer a private-for-profit organization recently released its financial results for the past three months—the highlights are listed below: Revenues for the...