[ad_1] Dive Brief: Students who received emergency grants from a completion program at Georgia State University graduated more quickly than their counterparts, according to a new report from Ithaka S+R, an educational research nonprofit. The grants benefited Pell Grant recipients and students from underrepresented racial or ethnic backgrounds similarly. The university’s Panther Retention Grant program…
[ad_1] Novato, CA (March 30, 2022)– PBLWorks, the leading provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has partnered with the Kentucky Department of Education on a four-year initiative to increase high-quality Project Based Learning in K-12 schools throughout the state. The Scaling Gold Standard PBL Kentucky initiative will provide Gold Standard PBL…
[ad_1] Within the profession, it’s a fact of life, according to Eleanor Blair, author of the 2018 book, “By the Light of the Silvery Moon: Teacher Moonlighting and the Dark Side of Teachers’ Work,” and a professor at Western Carolina University. “Teacher moonlighting is like some dirty little secret that we all know about, we…
[ad_1] In 2006, Eric Van Eck was a freshman nursing student at the College of New Jersey, the world at his fingertips. He had a steady relationship with his high-school girlfriend and a supportive family back home in Rockaway Township, N.J. Things began to fall apart the summer before senior year, when his girlfriend’s brother,…
[ad_1] Five years ago, a community of faculty and staff innovators at the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan established a new model for social learning. The result is a newly created space for diverse and multi-generational participants to learn with and from each other about some of the most important social…
[ad_1] Dr. Robin Naughton is an Assistant Professor and Web and Digital Services Librarian at Queens College in New York. She joins Mike Palmer (who happens to be her husband) in a conversation about diversity, digital inclusion, and the design of library spaces. We also share our experiences raising a young son in these challenging…
[ad_1] Asking a student what they want to be when they grow up is a big question. When you’re young, it’s hard to know which careers match your skills and interests. Kids may not even know that some jobs exist. That’s why these free interactive career exploration activities from Realityworks, designed just for students in…
[ad_1] The University of Lucknow has extended the deadline for submitting undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) admission forms. Now the last date to submit the application form is June 30. Earlier, the last date to submit the application form is May 20. The application date has been extended twice due to coronavirus outbreak in the…
[ad_1] Leading black figures in the Church of England including two prominent bishops are among more than 160 signatories to a letter objecting to a recent judgment that a memorial to the slave trader Tobias Rustat should remain in the chapel at Jesus College, Cambridge. The letter to the Church Times, which is also signed…
[ad_1] I really like Idaho, it’s western and wide-open in ways that appeal to me. The frontier bootstrap spirit is still evident. Incredible fishing, especially in the eastern part near Yellowstone. Independent people. I have a variety of friends there I adore. Yet most things need some sort of limiting principal, too. Even in a…