Higher Ed
Google hopes to boost AP computer science pass rates
As research reveals that minority students enroll in and pass high school and college STEM courses less often than their peers, efforts are emerging to encourage those student…
Austin ISD offers free test prep to high school students
Austin ISD (AISD) is partnering with Edgenuity, an online education provider, to expand support for all high school students by offering free test preparation services for college entrance…
CTE sheds its stigma
Career and technical education (CTE) or vocational education: either term used to stir up negative images of students without ambition. But those misplaced reputations are disappearing. CTE has…
W.Va. moves to personalized learning
Education leaders in West Virginia are moving forward with an ambitious plan to bring personalized learning to students in a statewide effort under an initiative called Project 24.…
Questions to answer after high school
According to a new report, there are basic questions postsecondary data, with access to college and university data, need to be able to answer—not only for higher-ed institutions,…
5 new ways students are choosing their colleges and universities
Gone are the days when students chose their postsecondary education institution based off of U.S. News & World Report publications. In this mobile-enabled culture, today’s students are redefining…
How can data increase college access for all?
There are real questions about the value of a college education, Getting Smart reports.
Nation’s youngest will face less competition getting into college
Demographics are changing rapidly in the United States. From the late 1980’s until a few years ago, the number of high school graduates has been steadily increasing until…
The 10 most wired colleges in the country
These days, it's hard to imagine life on a college campus without an Internet connection. It's no longer just a matter of having a connection for students' laptops,…
Chancellor at University of California to become chief at Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has tapped Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, as the next chief executive of the giant charitable organization,…
U.S. education extends international handshake
With so much emphasis on comparing the nation’s education to its global counterparts, it’s only fitting that the U.S. Department of State (DOS) and the U.S. Department of…
Do teenage entrepreneurs even need to go to college?
The democratization of technology wrought by the mobile Web and a proliferation of app stores has made it easier than ever to succeed as an entrepreneur—and at an…
Seeking better teachers, city evaluates local colleges that train them
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has used data to rate restaurants, track the repair of potholes and close lackluster schools in New York City, reports The New York Times.
Report: Teacher preparation programs an ‘industry of mediocrity’
In a new report that’s already dividing the education community within hours of its release, findings based on eight years of research are supposedly able to rank U.S.…
Sticker shock: New college graduates, here is why your education cost so much money
When high school senior Jenny Bonilla got her college acceptance letter in March, she felt shock and heartbreak rather than joy, Yahoo! News reports.
SOPHIA.org launches free college readiness tools
With the cost of higher education skyrocketing and two-thirds of today’s students unprepared academically for college, SOPHIA.org has launched a new program called “Operation College Success,” offering free…
Students’ ‘magic school bus’ increases college acceptance rates
Most educators are familiar with the adventures of Ms. Frizzle’s Magic School Bus and the incredible journeys students take while riding it to explore the solar system, inside…
Seeking college edge, Chinese pupils arrive in New York earlier
Weiling Zhang, a sophomore at the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School, yearned to communicate with more conviction and verve than her peers back home — the “American way,” she…
The college degrees employers seek
New grads with business or technology degrees will have a decided advantage when they hit the job market this summer, new research shows.
First online-only public university in U.S.
Public university students in Florida next year will be able to start working toward college degrees without actually going to college, under a law Governor Rick Scott signed…
What makes a good teacher preparation program?
To make sure students graduate from high school prepared to tackle whatever path they choose, teacher preparation must focus on making today's education system a learner-centered instructional model,…
Reporter tries a MOOC
Alas, I busted my deadline. As I write this, my assignment was due 13 hours ago. In this case, I was not late in filing a story for…
Dartmouth College ending Advanced Placement credit
High school students hoping to earn college credits through Advanced Placement exams soon will be out of luck at Dartmouth College, which has concluded the tests aren't as…
Record number complete high school and college
Although the United States no longer leads the world in educational attainment, record numbers of young Americans are completing high school, going to college and finishing college, according…
Number of college applications affected by social media triples
College applicants shouldn’t shut down their various social media accounts, experts said, but they should heavily edit their online comments, photos, and videos, as thousands of applications were…
Opinion: The trouble with big name, big priced colleges: They’re not worth it
Vanessa Bertrand always intended to go to a big-name, out-of-state school. She made the decision as a little girl, watching Cliff Huxtable on a rerun of The Cosby…
Gates Foundation supports college readiness apps
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is awarding upwards of $100,000 to developers who propose apps and online tools that ... Read more
Education policies, funding at stake in 2012 election
When voters go to the polls to choose the nation’s next president in November, they’ll be making a choice that has important implications for schooling in the next…
Delaware bans colleges from requiring students’ social media passwords
Should a university be able to edit a student’s Facebook profile or check his private tweets? Absolutely not, said the Delaware state legislature, as it recently passed the…
College admissions season begins with launch of 2012-13 Common Application
Rising high school seniors who want to get a jump on their college applications should know that the Common Application used by more than 450 colleges and universities…
Top campuses jump into the free online course game
A dozen of the country's top universities will make courses available for free on the open online class site Coursera by the beginning of 2013. The announcement was…
Experts: UVa.’s Coursera partnership far from an embrace of online learning
The University of Virginia will make four of its courses available for free online in 2013 after the campus’s governing board last month cited a lack of web-based…
Dell jumps into lecture capture
The proliferation of online courses and the flipped learning model has created demand in higher education for lecture capture systems, and officials at technology giant Dell said July…
Colleges taking a team approach to eTextbooks
Reining in exorbitant textbook costs is no longer a campus-by-campus venture: A unified approach, powered by EDUCAUSE and the Internet2 consortium’s NET+ cloud-based collaborative purchasing program, could make…
Online learning platform uses ‘Hollywood Squares’ model to boost engagement
The ever-present temptations of Facebook, Twitter, eMail, instant messaging, text messages, and online shopping are no match for face-to-face-to-face-to-face interaction.