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7 strategies to counter student learning loss
Until very recently, learning loss was a matter of concern mainly because of long summer holidays. Students’ socioeconomic situations played a role in those concerns…
Zovio explores selling parts of its business as net losses continue
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Zovio, an educational services provider…
The ABA is again trying to end LSAT requirements. Will it stick this time?
Law schools may no longer have to require applicants to provide standardized exam scores including the Law School Admission Test under a recommendation being considered…
New Research Looks for Better Ways for Schools to Recruit Teachers of Color
America is getting increasingly diverse. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the makeup of public-school teachers, who are overwhelmingly white. Over the past…
A Bus Carrying an HBCU’s Lacrosse Team Was Pulled Over. Deputies Searched It for Drugs.
The president of a historically Black university says he is “incensed” that the institution’s women’s lacrosse team was subjected to a “trying and humiliating” traffic…
3 Questions on OPM Research for 2U’s David Sutphen
For a number of years, we have been advocating for companies in the online program management space to support independent research on institutional and student…
39 Million Americans Went to College but Didn’t Earn a Degree. Here’s What We Know About Who Returned.
Can universities and colleges do more to identify and re-enroll people who attended college but dropped out before earning a certificate, or an associate or…
New President at Davidson College; Pratt Institute Makes Interim Provost Permanent
Douglas A. Hicks has been named president of Davidson College. CHIEF EXECUTIVESAppointmentsJoy Bodin, vice president for academic and student affairs at Central Lakes College, has…
Grad Students Suspend Their Strike at Indiana U. But the Fight’s Not Over.
Indiana University at Bloomington’s graduate students announced on Tuesday that they were suspending a monthlong strike, just before the university’s deadline for instructors to submit…
4 steps to a successful SEL implementation
After several years of using a homegrown social emotional learning (SEL) approach, our district decided it was time for a more official curriculum that would…