If you’re considering a career in the healthcare industry, there is some good news coming out of Washington. The Obama administration just announced that nearly $1 billion in Recovery Act funds have been allocated for healthcare information technology (IT) and job training in the healthcare field.
The awards were announced in a joint statement [...]

One of President Obama’s signature initiatives is education reform and an important cornerstone of this plan is revamping the student loan business by removing financial ‘middlemen’ from the process. If the president’s plan goes forward, all federally-funded college loans would go directly from the lender to students, eliminating the service of financial institutions that [...]

College students struggling with loan payments, there might be relief in sight – and its coming straight from the top.
President Obama has never made a secret that education has a top spot on his domestic agenda. Before his administration was 100 days old, he announced a ‘cradle to career’ commitment to new education [...]

The deadline is here for the first round of entries into RACE TO THE TOP – the $4.35 billion in competitive grant money that the federal government is offering to states for education reform and classroom innovation. In unveiling the program last year, President Obama announced, “This competition will not be based on politics, [...]