Education

Community colleges invest in advising to improve graduation ratesIn Alabama, two-year colleges are experimenting with “success coaches” and other advising strategies, with an eye toward boosting poor student completion rates.

Here’s what recent research tells us about the widespread benefits of spending on children. For employers Employers see benefits for their employees and businesses when families have child care and…

Disparate transfer enrollment declines pose stark demographic implications for four-year universities, experts say…

Casey Trupin works on ending youth homelessness at the Raikes Foundation. Previously, he served as the Directing Attorney for the Children and Youth Project at Columbia Legal Services in Seattle, advocating…

Home-based child care providers have been the “unsung heroes in the COVID-19 crisis,” as many stepped up to continue services despite nearly 40 percent of the child care workforce losing their…

Disciplinary transfers represent a large, yet hidden share of California’s exclusionary discipline practices, blocking students from their schools without the public reporting or due process protections that regulate expulsions.

It is well known by now that the pandemic has decimated the child care industry: at the end of last year, there were 166,800 fewer child care workers than the previous…

As we gear up for yet another school year, we in education have a choice to make on what we will value going forward. The past year has been one…

Community colleges provide postsecondary education to millions of students in the United States each year, but their graduation rates are low. Many community colleges have implemented interventions to help students…

Schools are trying to boost security without criminalizing students, as the number of guns found in schools and shootings continue to rise.

In March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States. Every part of America has been affected while its existing inequities have been both highlighted and worsened. Without minimizing the…

The recent Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court, which overturned half a century of abortion rights, will affect wide areas of society, and higher education will be no exception. The impacts…