| Jonathan Gueverra
Position: Provost, Alexandria campus, Northern Virginia Community College, the largest institution of higher education in Virginia and the second-largest community college in the country. The school has six campuses -- Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and Woodbridge -- with more than 60,000 students. Career Highlights: Dean, school of business and public service, State University of New York at Canton; adjunct faculty, school of management & school of education, Lesley University; associate professor, management, Wentworth Institute of Technology; assistant professor and director of program development, school of management, Lesley University; associate dean, business and careers program, Massachusetts Bay Community College; chairman, department of business administration, Newbury College; instructor, business, hotel and restaurant management, Newbury College; accountant and consultant for small farms and business (self-employed); retail manager, Christy's Market, and assistant recruitment officer, Water & Sewerage Authority (Trinidad & Tobago).
American Education Services Announces the Winners of The $20000 ...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Education Services (AES) has announced the four winners of The $20,000 Lighten Your Loan Sweepstakes(SM). The sweepstakes awarded four loan payments, totaling $20,000, to individuals across the country. Winners will use their prizes to pay down their student loan debt. .
Trump University Announces New Partnership with 'The Company ...
NEW YORK, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Trump University is joining forces with The Company Corporation (http://www.corporate.com/), the leading company in business formation services for real estate investors. This partnership will offer Company Corporation users an expanded real estate education curriculum, providing users with discounted product offerings and co-branded marketing opportunities in real estate at Trump University. Founded by Donald J. Trump in 2005, Trump University offers instruction in entrepreneurship, marketing, management, real estate, investing and wealth building. Its faculty -- Mr. Trump himself, joined by professors from major universities and successful entrepreneurs from many business sectors -- presents courses in formats that include instructor-led weekly online classes, teleseminars, as well as self-guided e-learning courses on CD and DVD.
Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act -- the education bill passed by Congress in 2001 and signed by George W. Bush in 2002 -- comes up for reauthorization this year. NCLB injected into the federal aid to education program important doses of accountability -- yearly testing of kids from grades 3 to 8, consequences for failing schools, disaggregation of data by race and ethnicity -- and it seems to have resulted in some modest improvements in test scores. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is optimistic that it will be reauthorized. Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep. George Miller have scheduled a bipartisan joint meeting of their committees for March 13 -- both played major roles in 2001 shaping the bill, which passed with bipartisan majorities. Yet 11 members of a bipartisan group of 12 Washington education law professionals surveyed in December by the Thomas B.
House committee wants to update sex education
At the statehouse on Monday, a House committee voted to update sex education in Iowa classrooms. By a vote of 17 to six, the house education committee agreed all sex education in Iowa should be "scientifically accurate." Statehouse Democrats have pushed for that in the past, and now hold a majority so they can advance it. Representative Mary Mascher of Iowa City gave examples of unscientific material she said has been presented in Iowa schools: "Ninty-nine-percent of girls who are having sexual intercourse become pregnant," Mascher cites, "and that you can get HIV from sweat and tears." Some schools have opted to refrain from teaching any information about fertility or birth control, using so-called abstinence-only programs, and Mascher says they could continue to do that. Mascher says the department would provide information for such abstinence-only programs that's research-based and age- appropriate, saying, "Just because they're offering abstinence-only, they cannot offer inaccurate information in that program either." The measure also adds new class instruction on the dangers of internet predators.
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