"The U.S. Education Department can do virtually nothing about the fundamental flaw that many college officials see in the federal government's new program for would-be teachers: the fact that the $4,000-a-year grant reverts to a potentially costly loan if the borrower does not end up teaching the right kind of subject at the right kind of high school full-time for four years," Inside Higher Ed reports. "Given that limitation - which some college officials hope to address by asking Congress to reconsider the law governing the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grant program - the proposed rules that the in the Federal Register Friday for carrying out the new program may be a bit anticlimactic."