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How schools are moving away from remedial summer learning
During the National Summer Learning Association conference this week, two district leaders shared details of their schools’ transition to accelerated learning.
Proponents of Competency-Based Education Push to Spur Adoption — Amid Challenges
For decades, advocates of competency-based education have been arguing that colleges should award credits based on assessing what students know rather than how many hours they’ve spent in class. Could this post-pandemic moment lead to broader adoption of the idea?
Seeking Solutions to Strengthen Career Pathways
Today, some of our country’s communities are engaged in conversations about talent pipeline shortages, challenges, and opportunities. At Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), college leaders continue to be involved in strategic discussions throughout Northeast Ohio with a diverse group of partners about solutions to connect people to family-sustaining wage jobs.
How Higher Ed Can Help Remedy K-12 Learning Losses
Low national scores have spurred discussion of how K-12 schools can improve student performance. Experts think institutions of higher education can help.
Time to stop weeding out first- and second-year STEM students and ending careers before they begin
The education system graduates disproportionately low numbers of Black, Latino, Indigenous and women students in STEM majors. Weed-out courses are the first leak in the higher education pipeline preventing these groups from entering STEM professions, writes Senegal Alfred Mabry.
AAA partners with universities to develop tech talent
Amid economywide tech talent challenges, AAA has partnered with universities to provide students with internships and for-credit opportunities while tapping a new talent pool, according to Shohreh Abedi, executive vice president and chief operations and technology officer at AAA.
Students Say Depression, Anxiety Are Holding Them Back. But They Can’t Find Help at School
Middle and high school students say overwhelmingly that depression, stress, and anxiety are the biggest barriers to their learning, according to a new report released by YouthTruth, a nonprofit that surveys K-12 students and families for school districts.
Teaching as a Transferrable Skill
The ability to help others learn can be applied in almost any job, and graduate students should develop it as soon as they can, writes Lauren Easterling.
Scores nationwide crater on national math test, California’s not quite so much
Nationwide scores plummeted in math and fell significantly in reading in 2022 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, providing new evidence of the pandemic’s unparalleled impact on student learning and reinforcing calls for extra help for students who have fallen behind. Scores in California followed the national pattern in math but less so in reading.