[ad_1] “Mr. Morita, you were wrong. School is not the problem. Students are the problem.” This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school.…
[ad_1] If you were just tuning into the Scripps National Spelling Bee last summer, settling in to watch the competition play out, for the first time, during a pandemic, you might not have noticed Zaila Avant-garde as anyone other than Speller 133. At least not at first. But as the competition whittled down, Speller 133…
[ad_1] Some entrepreneurs and educators have seen Income Share Agreements, or ISAs, as a new way to improve diversity and access to higher education. The idea is students pay nothing up front for college but pledge to pay a percentage of their wages for a set time after they graduate and get a job. One…
[ad_1] One thing the pandemic has made clear, many experts say, is that families with young children need more support than they’re getting. The shuttering of child care centers forced many parents to leave their jobs, fueling the Great Resignation. And a U.S. Treasury report from September noted the harmful effects of shortfalls in the…
[ad_1] The Education Department announced a new policy on Wednesday that it says will help protect taxpayers from the heavy cost of loan forgiveness when colleges either shut down or are found to have misled or defrauded students. In certain circumstances, the department will begin requiring additional signatures on the agreement that private colleges must…
[ad_1] To: Faculty and StudentsFrom: Human ResourcesSubject: Asking staff members about their break plansDate: March 1, 2022 Dear esteemed faculty members and valued students, We know you’re excited about the upcoming break and the wonderful things you have planned. It’s always interesting to hear about boozy vacations in warm, sunny places or exciting cities, esoteric…
[ad_1] To the Editor: I often enjoy the Confessions of a Community College Dean column, particularly when Mr. Reed shares the parent perspective of higher education. His “6 Down, 3 to Go” piece, however, has some statements that concern me as someone who oversees an institution’s financial aid office. First, this: “First, the family contribution…
[ad_1] To the Editor: In a recent blog post, Matt Reed raises concerns about gas prices and their impact on the majority of students on physical campuses (that is, commuter students). This is a real concern and one that I was thinking about back in the early part of the 2010s when I first started…
[ad_1] A new report from the TIAA Institute says that faculty appointment and evaluation systems at many institutions rely on outdated or inappropriate definitions of excellence and work—and that change is possible. Author KerryAnn O’Meara, a professor of higher education and distinguished scholar-teacher at the University of Maryland at College Park (and an occasional opinion…
[ad_1] Some 24.1 million people age 25 and older had master’s degrees in 2021. That’s a 51-percent increase from 2011, when 16 million people held the credential. The increase makes sense when you consider that, for several years, roughly 40 percent of college freshmen in the American Freshman National Norms survey said they planned to…