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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett recently unveiled a plan to narrow the state’s ongoing fiscal crisis by cutting state funding to higher education. It’s the biggest change in his $27.14 billion budget from last year: a proposed $1.4 billion, or 20 percent, cut to higher education in the state.
In a Chronicle of Higher Education report, Lehigh was ranked third nationally in research productivity. The College of Education’s school psychology program was ranked among the nation’s elite for research productivity in a report recently published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Five years ago, The New York Times dissected STEM education and realized, yet again, that America was falling well short in preparing its teachers to lead successful, STEM-driven curricula. Even today, recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers is a problem that confounds the entire educational community.
The national debate on... Read more »
FLASHBACK: JANUARY 8, 2002
The law enjoyed early bipartisan support. “I think what’s important today is that we have a president that wants to make this a strong priority in education,” Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) said during the White House signing ceremony. “And I think we have those that have leadership positions in the House and... Read more »
Myths about the impact of special education abound. Those misperceptions are wreaking havoc in the classroom as states, faced with soaring expenses and financial disrepair, turn their full attention to special education services. Against this uncertain backdrop, five members of the Lehigh community discuss the merits of special education.
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