Tag: education stages

September 7, 2017

The beginning of fall semester is always the most intellectual fertile time in my academic year.  I approach the classroom from a rested viewpoint.  I am able to think in more big-picture terms, to apply a theoretical lens to my […]

May 31, 2017

Employers in fields that utilize science, technology, engineering and mathematics have consistently sounded a warning bell about the future of STEM in the United States, cautioning that there is a coming gap in qualified applicants for employers. The rates of […]

May 5, 2017

The theory behind personalized learning (PL)—crafting an individualized education experience for each student—holds tremendous potential for better serving all students, especially students who don’t fit the norm. But too often teachers in PL classrooms are simply substituting one-size-fits-all direct group […]

September 7, 2016

Salerno’s is a novel idea that accompanies the federal government’s existing approach to determining who earns degrees and which schools grant them. If you are poor and cannot afford to pay back federal loans for four-year education, the DOE essentially […]

April 8, 2016

It is no secret that there is a gap between the skills employers want and those recent graduates entering the workforce possess. According to a recent survey by the Business Roundtable, 95% of American CEOs believe their companies suffer from […]

March 1, 2016

Most educational organizations want to improve teaching and learning by leveraging technology. The terms blended learning and its subset, flipped learning, are touted extensively as useful educational goals. However, there are a number of fundamentals that need to be in […]

February 17, 2016

Slightly more than half of first-generation, black, Latino, and low-income high school upperclassmen report personal letters from colleges are helpful as they gather information about their post-secondary options. Just 38% of Asian students and 27% of students from higher income […]

February 4, 2016

Innovation is not something that just happens–or, rather it does given the right chemistry. Oftentimes this chemistry is referred to locally in schools as “climate,” but climate is only a small part of the formula. Where innovation comes from is […]

February 4, 2016

A student-employer matchmaker just made a match of its own. Handshake, a university career services platform and student professional network, today announced it raised $10.5 million in Series A financing. The San Francisco-based company launched in 2014 and last year […]

February 4, 2016

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), leader of that body’s education committee, said in 2015 he wanted to have a rewrite of the Higher Education Act on the president’s desk by the end of the year. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act […]

February 3, 2016

Senator Ted Cruz’s victory in the Iowa caucuses this week elevates the candidacy of the presidential contender who is perhaps most at odds with colleges and universities on many policy issues. The Texas Republican has pushed for the kind of […]

February 3, 2016

The new Every Student Succeeds Act puts a premium on federal efforts to help states identify and eliminate low-quality, redundant or unhelpful testing, and new guidance (link is external) announced Feb. 2 by acting U.S. Secretary of Education John B. […]