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By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Lets fight fraud together. If you are tired of sitting on the couch or bleachers watching the fight to reform, restructure, right-size or close the Department of Education, join the peaceful movement of reason. Here is a notice in the Federal Register, asking the asking the […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Runcie, the former Chief Operating Officer, Office of Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education resigned under a cloud bigger than imagined. According to the OIG Inspector Tighe, “improper payments for the Federal Direct Loan program swelled from $1.28 billion in 2015 to $3.18 billion in […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology An update to this article are three graphs from the U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid Office which reports upon (in graph format) the trend in student debt defaults. See here trends (graphs) in student financial aid defaults 2012-2018 Trends in student loan defaults Student […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Today, a university in India was forced to clarify photos posted to social media showing Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) students taking an open book assessment. The photos appeared to demonstrate test security flaws and cheating. However, there are much broader implications. As a background, […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Today, NY Times continues its piece on Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools. The dangers of super-sized donor influence in education have often been overlooked by federal and state regulators as it is believed that the benefits to society seem to outweigh the costs. However, Ms. […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology A few months back, I wrote a post about the importance of background screening. After reading about alleged teacher cruelty against an innocent 11 year old student in Louisiana, I felt compelled to discuss the implications for failure to screen educators again. In summary, it seems […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Last night at around 10:30pm, James Runcie, Chief Operating Officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education resigned, reportedly due to his refusal to testify before the House Oversight Committee. House Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx discerned, “No one […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology In 2015, the House of Representatives harshly criticized the U.S. Department of Education for failure to safeguard confidential information stored in its information technology systems. What types of information are at stake? Confidential banking and income information of 40 million federal student loan borrowers. At the […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology FITARA is an acronym for Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. “ FITARA was enacted to improve the federal government’s IT capabilities and enhance the authority of each agency’s CIO to make IT related decisions” [1, para 3]. On May 2016, the U.S. Department of Education […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA,MA Educational Psychology 1.Suicides Among Young Children-Rare. In the United States, during a six year period from 1999 to 2005, there were just 10 suicides among 10-year-olds the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control reported. 2.De-Bunked Myth. Contrary to popular myths, kids […]