This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Historically, many colleges have received state funding based on how many full-time equivalent students are enrolled at the beginning of the semester. This model provides incentives for colleges to enroll…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While a college degree offers the opportunity for increased income, a degree alone does not guarantee a student’s successful entry into the workforce. Work-based learning, such as internships and apprenticeship…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The political pile-up around efforts to improve schools in Newark, New Jersey, could have come from a Tom Wolfe novel: An aggressive conservative governor teams with a distressed city’s progressive…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Children in Mississippi’s capital city are getting shortchanged. The Mississippi Department of Education had been investigating the Jackson Public School District, and recently released a report which found the district…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New research in the latest issue of Education Next does an elegant job of capturing the perils of ed tech. Payne Carter and her colleagues examined the performance of West Point sophomores in a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dozens of high school students watched as four-legged drones buzzed past each other like yellow bumblebees in a gym at Kentucky’s Hazard Community and Technical College. More than 70 kids…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How can the world experience more equality, innovation and a brighter future? It starts by empowering women with more opportunity. In his 2010 book, “Half the Sky” Nicholas Kristof, an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Of the $1.7 billion that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged to public education over the next five years, the majority will go toward supporting innovations within schools…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. That’s an advantage not available to lower-income students, even those who’ve gone attending an outstanding high school like those run by charter operator KIPP. A handful of KIPP seniors are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Richard Whitmire’s New York Daily News article he writes, “What some NYC charter schools do better than any in the nation: A proud distinction for Uncommon, KIPP and Achievement…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shouts. Interruptions. Orchestrated chanting. The predictable convulsions of the contemporary university when a conservative comes to town. This time it was U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, speaking to students,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One Chicago Public Schools teacher’s passionate essay has helped bring an entire year’s worth of school supplies to not just her students, but to all the students at her school.…