Sep 06 Watch 9:14 ‘Always ready to go back’: Could students benefit from year-round school? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 05 Twitter Chat: How important is early childhood education? By Nora Daly How important is early childhood education? Could its impact last into adulthood? Can kids without access to quality preschool catch up? Join us for a Twitter chat at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday. Continue reading
Sep 04 Watch Can a cell phone video get your kid into college? By PBS News Hour Colleges and universities are getting increasingly creative with their admissions essay prompts, but a small liberal arts college has set a new precedent. In lieu of recommendation letters, extracurricular activities and test scores, Goucher College in Maryland will accept a… Continue watching
Sep 04 Forget essays, grades, Goucher College to accept video-only applications By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed Can an applicant explain why he or she would thrive at a given college in two minutes? If the applicant wants to enroll at Goucher College, that is pretty much all it will take under a new admissions option being… Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch One student’s dyslexia changed how a community viewed learning By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 03 Why so many college grads are highly-educated, well placed, and going nowhere By Kirk Carapezza, Mallory Noe-Payne, WGBH Three years ago, sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa found that college students learn little while in school. Their book, Academically Adrift, shocked the academy and provoked angry responses. Now, the two provocateurs are back. Their sequel is called Aspiring… Continue reading
Sep 01 Watch Summer school motivates college dreams for middle school students By PBS News Hour In St. Paul, Minnesota, students are dancing their way to class -- literally -- in the middle of the summer. This is Breakthrough, an innovative summer program with the sole focus of inspiring low-income, under-resourced middle school students to go… Continue watching
Sep 01 How to start your own charter school: one family’s recipe for startup success By Elizabeth Jones Wynee Sade and her husband along with four other families decided to establish their own dual-language Mandarin immersion school. Meeting at each other’s homes with just a blank sheet of paper, they began the long and arduous process of establishing… Continue reading
Aug 30 How is Common Core playing out in all 50 states and DC? By Associated Press The Common Core standards are math and English benchmarks describing what students should know after completing each grade. They were developed by states to allow comparison of students’ performance. More than 40 states have adopted them. Here is a state-by-state… Continue reading
Aug 29 Twitter Chat: Should colleges be run more like businesses? By Nora Daly Few doubt that higher education must adapt to meet the changing needs of students and society. Is a more business-like approach the answer?… Continue reading