Category: Informal learning

June 13, 2024

Prior to the seismic shifts of 2020, online learning was steadily gaining acceptance and effectiveness. Single course providers were growing, and even Ivy League schools were experimenting with massive open online courses. But when the pandemic arrived, it brought forth […]

June 7, 2024

An overwhelming majority (82.58 percent) of faculty, staff, and administrators working with online students have seen an increase in demand for mental health support over the past academic year, according to a global survey of higher education professionals released by […]

June 3, 2024

Despite district and school leaders’ significant efforts to address accumulated learning loss from the pandemic, student achievement has yet to recover. In a report from January, researchers from The Education Recovery Scorecard Project found that nationally, by June 2023, only […]

May 31, 2024

It’s been one year since U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona called on colleges to tap into Federal Work-Study funds to place more of their students in support roles — particularly tutoring services — in K-12 schools. Signs of success are […]

April 2, 2024

In the aftermath of the pandemic, schools across the country face an urgent crisis of student achievement. Most students will require a minimum of three school years to recover the academic learning that was lost. The deleterious effects of the […]

March 7, 2024

The University of Iowa’s Board of Regents recently recommended closing three off-campus learning centers and moving the graduate programs they hosted online. “We would offer classes and end up having to close or not offer 50 to 80 percent of […]

February 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether […]

October 31, 2023

Driving passengers in Teslas along the Vegas Loop, an underground tunnel system in Las Vegas, was not exactly how Glenna Wright-Gallo thought she’d spend her time as she waited for the U.S. Senate to confirm her nomination as assistant secretary […]

October 12, 2023

Westat, a research and professional services company, will lead a new technical assistance center to address data quality for significant disproportionality in special education, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services announced Thursday. The five-year […]

August 10, 2023

The COVID pandemic emphasized the need for robust online and hybrid learning options for students, particularly as the nontraditional student population, which needs flexibility due to personal, professional, and family obligations, grows. Now, BestColleges’ ninth annual Online Education Trends Report […]

August 8, 2023

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), K-12 public schools faced significant teacher shortages in 2022, with nearly half reporting vacancies. Special education was one of the areas hit hardest, with 45 percent of schools needing to fill […]

August 1, 2023

In addition to the wide array of challenges that child care providers in America already face — low wages, few if any workplace benefits, lack of respect and professionalization — those who care for and educate young children in their […]

July 25, 2023

A report on the survey results, which comes from the nationally representative NHIS household survey, does not examine why there’s been an increase in developmental disabilities diagnoses. However, the statistics align with other research and data collected by the federal […]

July 24, 2023

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs announced updated policy guidance Monday that it said will help states with timely identification and correction of district’s noncompliance with early intervention services for infants and toddlers and K-12 special […]

June 8, 2023

Campuses are back open as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, but plenty of students continue to take classes online — especially at community colleges. But are these online students as engaged as those in traditional classes? That was the research question […]

June 5, 2023

It goes without saying that the Covid-19 pandemic affected every aspect of our lives in one way or another. The world was forced to adapt to a new reality to overcome the numerous challenges and hardships brought by the virus. […]

May 19, 2023

When we started using a new literacy program 10 years ago, our reading scores were mediocre. Within a few years we had moved up to being a Level 1+ school, which is one of the highest rankings for Chicago Public […]

May 11, 2023

Schools today are facing a harsh reality: there is a chronic shortage of qualified speech-language pathologists (SLPs). As an SLP and clinical director who has worked with school districts across the country, I’ve watched this problem grow over the years. […]

April 5, 2023

States with formal policies around gifted and talented programs tend to identify more English learners and students with disabilities for those programs, according to a new study from NWEA, a not-for-profit research and educational services organization serving K-12 students. The […]

March 28, 2023

Homework can be challenging for all children, but for students with autism, it can be challenging. It is common for children with autism to have difficulties with executive functioning abilities, including planning, organization, and prioritization. In addition, they may have […]