No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has not only failed to close the achievement gap, but has led to schools resorting to corrupt practices in an attempt to show better test results.
Billions in federal financial aid is left on the table each year.
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Nearly US$ 3 billion in financial aid is left on the table each year, as students fail to fill out the FAFSA, the free application for federal student aid.
Racism exists and not much may have changed in the past 30 years.
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Racial tensions on college campuses may not be much different for today’s students from what they were even 36 years ago, argues associate professor of history at University of Oklahoma.
The possibility of a gun in a classroom may lead to fear in a learning environment
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Notre Dame alumna reflects on the extraordinary life, work and the legacy that Father Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, leaves behind for Catholic institutions.
History is not a ‘thing’ to be memorized, as some in the Oklahoma legislature might believe, but a living process, to be understood in all its complexity.
Testing has a detrimental impact on children.
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Dave Marcotte, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
A school year of less than 180 days is detrimental to kids’ learning. The most disadvantaged kids lose the most when schools have to declare snow days.
“Office hours” in the age of online.
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For the past twenty years, I’ve heard this question asked many times about online education. It might be tempting for enthusiasts to say “of course it is good,” but I see this as a kind of “trick question…
It’s a marital scene….
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As a family and marriage researcher, I have conducted a lot of research into what makes relationships work. I tend to think about relationships in terms of couples. When I was appointed the senior administrator…
Beyond Silicon Valley MOOC Meet-Up, Athens, Greece, June 11, 2014.
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Everyday, thousands of students around the world perch themselves in front of computer screens in homes, libraries, coffee shops, and Internet cafes to take a massive open online course (MOOC). It’s no…
First Lady visits charter school in Washington DC.
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Depending on who you ask, charter schools may be either an important solution to persistent educational inequality, or a misguided attack on public schools as Americans know them. Both sides are firmly…
Universities in South Africa do it…
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“Affirmative action won’t be around for much longer, ” said one of our professors twenty years ago, advising against writing a dissertation on this topic. The United States Supreme Court’s Schuette decision…