How one community college professor is fighting high pandemic dropout rates
Amid higher dropout rates, a professor in Texas redoubles her efforts to lead students to success.
After-school programs have either been abandoned or overworked during the pandemic
Many after-school programs, which provide both enrichment and child care, have gone out of business. Others went remote and still others became full-day child care programs. None had much guidance or support…
Even as colleges pledge to improve, share of engineering graduates who are Black declines
The proportion of graduates with degrees in science and engineering who are Black is flat or down, even as demand for workers in those high-paying fields grows at double the rate of other occupations. And Covid-19 pandemic trends appear to…
How teachers’ and parents’ COVID stress is affecting kids
Children dealing with their own issues also bear the frustration and fears of the adults closest to them…
When Worcester Polytechnic Institute wanted to attract more Black, Hispanic and female students, it became the first nationally ranked science university to make the ACT and SAT standardized tests optional for admission.
Isolated from peers and forced into remote learning, students experience loss, educational setbacks – and some unexpected academic progress.
Fall enrollment at community colleges was down 10 percent from a year earlier, according to National Student Clearinghouse data.
The pandemic has accelerated innovation in an industry that’s usually slow to change.
Zoom lectures haven’t been as bad as she thought they would be, though the upstairs neighbor’s vacuuming is distracting when she’s trying to pay attention.
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