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PHOENIX, Ariz. — A dairy operator in northern Wisconsin who wants a business degree is rarely stopped by the coursework. She is stopped by the fact that the nearest four-year campus is seventy miles away, that the courses she needs meet Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, and that neither of those facts will bend because she […] The post Rural America's Access Problem: Why Online Learning Is Rewriti…

What does it mean to remember an event you never experienced? A 30-year-old communication professor and her 18-year-old students explore how 9/11 is carried across generations.

Dual enrollment promises a head start on college, but for which students? In the first installment of a four-part series developed with Britebound, Getting Smart examines what separates a well-designed dual enrollment model from a catalog full of disconnected courses. This post introduces two foundational principles, intentional design and equitable access, and offers concrete questions every dis…

Nearly 86,000 of California’s children ages 0 to 3 — more than 5% of the state’s infants and toddlers — are estimated to have experienced homelessness in 2023-24, according to new data analysis by SchoolHouse Connection and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. This is a 15% jump from about 74,000 young children in […]

Most homeschoolers now piece together a variety of classes and outings for their kids. In the north Pittsburgh area, that often includes enrolling in Roots Learning Academy. Known as a hybrid program, Roots serves roughly 150 families who split their time between home instruction and on-site academic or extracurricular courses in rented church spaces. But […]

the black school creates a permanent space for creative education, neighborhood gathering, and black self-determination shaped through 18 months of community design research. The post community-led cultural hub provides permanent home for black creative education in new orleans appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

The Direct Entry Medicine programme is the first of its kind to be developed in Ireland since the mid-1800s. Read more: University of Limerick launches ‘historic’ direct entry medicine undergrad

I’ll be mixing my day job with my bookish interests in an upcoming virtual event for Heterodox Academy on September 24 to discuss Neil Gross’s new book, What Happened to College: How Politics Broke Higher Education and What We Can Do to Fix It. This is event is free and open to all. I’ll spend about half of the time in conversation and the other half taking questions from the audience. Feel free …

Aesthetic leadership emphasizes the experiential dimensions of leadership processes, including sensory engagement, emotion, embodied presence, and symbolic expression. Its focus differs from that of transformational leadership, which primarily emphasizes visionary inspiration, and from school climate research, which centers on shared perceptions of the organizational environment. However, althoug…

The introduction of theatre arts as a subject within Latvia's competence-based education reform has increased the importance of understanding how theatre arts teachers interpret the educational goals of theatre pedagogy. This study aimed to identify profiles of theatre arts teachers in Latvia based on response patterns reflecting inferred orientations toward aesthetic, social, and personal/cultur…

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. A growing chorus of teachers, parents, and education experts is worried that American students can’t read. But, hear me out, silver lining here: At least the students are in good company. (Okay, maybe that’s […]