Tag: strategy

February 27, 2024

Remote desktop sharing, sticky notes, Chegg (an instant study help website), and even flying drones have all become part of student cheating hacks. A study by Thomas Lancaster from Imperial College London found a 196% increase in cheating using Chegg […]

November 27, 2023

“What will you remember about our class?” I asked my English class in May, during the last month of their senior year. My students sat quietly considering the question. “I will remember how we would disagree, but we were still […]

October 9, 2023

When Utica University unveiled plans to reset its published tuition price in 2015, the private New York nonprofit was offering a discount rate of over 62% to prospective students, said Laura Casamento, who retired this year as the university’s president. […]

January 27, 2023

One of the biggest challenges higher-ed leaders face is obtaining cooperation and agreement as they strive to move their institution forward. Despite this major challenge, moving forward is a top priority–and an essential objective if instititions are to survive in […]

March 13, 2020

As robotics and advanced automation continue to spread throughout the American workplace, workers express conflicting and sometimes flatly contradictory attitudes about the impact these new technologies will have on their lives–but most believe that gaining relevant industry skills through continuous […]

October 10, 2019

While we are living times of change and using tech advancements once portrayed only in science fiction magazines, some things remain the same. Universal patterns and their physical translation need not change since they embody implacable relationships or rules, yet […]

August 15, 2019

Teachers participating in the AEP also had a lot to say recently about student discipline trends as a part of a Thomas B. Fordham Institute report. Responses showed teachers support newer approaches to discipline, such as restorative practices, but roughly […]

May 2, 2018

Adults in the workplace understand the power of praise. A person may be hired to do a job and may do the job well in order to earn a regular paycheck. But a word of praise from a boss or […]

March 22, 2017

Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements […]

September 13, 2016

As the school year gets underway across the nation, many schools and districts are launching new technology initiatives and programs designed to improve teaching and learning. Educators love to share their successes, learn from the success of other schools and […]

June 16, 2016

College and career readiness is a ubiquitous education catch-phrase, but in reality many high schools focus primarily on the “college” side of the equation. In part, that’s because research has shown that young adults who graduate with college degrees tend […]

March 16, 2016

We all know college is super expensive; not only do you have to pay tuition, but there’s also room and board (for those of you staying on campus), a meal plan (yay for cafeteria food…), and textbooks (buying hundred-dollar books […]

March 16, 2016

It took a broad coalition to win enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act, and organizations at the center of that effort continue to explore opportunities to work together as the law now moves into states and the make-or-break arena […]

March 7, 2016

As time goes by, students have to assimilate more and more information. History adds a few more decades, science progresses, languages transform and economics becomes even more intricate – while all these have to fit into the same amount of […]

February 9, 2016

Self-control is a behavioral goal that people try to achieve for a great part of their lives. As humans develop their personality and social skills and acquire various degrees of general or specialized knowledge, mastering self-control is an important auxiliary […]

December 28, 2015

Mark Conrad, the superintendent of schools in Nashua, N.H., got the chilling news last Sunday morning. An email sent to a school board member threatened a lethal attack on multiple schools, naming the sites, how students would be harmed and […]