Jamaal Abdul-AlimHomePanelists: Higher Education Act Might Be in Political CrosshairsA simpler financial aid system and better learning outcomes for college students emerged Wednesday as some of the top things that Congress should seek to bring about when it works to reauthorize the Higher Education Act.November 12, 2014HomeNCTQ Report: High Marks Don’t Mean Teachers Ready for Classroom“Easy A’s and What’s Behind Them” is the latest in a series of NCTQ reports that takes teacher prep programs to task for how well they produce teachers who are ready to put their skills to use on the first day of school instead of relying on trial and error.November 11, 2014HomeLa Salle University Program Hones In on SAT UnderperformersIn his capacity as director of the Academic Discovery Program at La Salle University, Bob Miedel deliberately seeks out students with SAT scores that are “slightly disappointing.”November 10, 2014HomeExpert: Early Interventions for Disadvantaged More Effective, Less CostlyAn early version of a “life cycle model” meant to show what interventions are needed to propel poor children into a middle-class life of “success” got a fresh airing and a warm welcome this week at the American Institutes for Research.November 6, 2014StudentsReview: Howard Fuller Chronicles His Road to Education ActivismThe recently-released memoir, No Struggle, No Progress: A Warrior’s Life from Black Power to Education Reform, recounts Fuller’s education and evolution.November 3, 2014HomeProfessors Examine Affirmative Action And Racial Stereotypes in Higher EducationAccording to research done by two law professors at the University of California, Berkley, ending affirmative action in schools will not eliminate racial stereotypes.November 2, 2014HomeFree College Advising to Be Offered to Students from Poor and Middle Class FamiliesProject collaborators say they hope the initiative will provide the students with the kind of personalized counseling that students from more affluent families tend to get from private counselors or their school-based guidance counselors.October 28, 2014HomeReport Encourages Incentivizing States to Share in Costs of Higher EducationU.S. Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell said the report speaks to the need to tackle what he characterized as “systematic disinvestment by states throughout the Great Recession in higher education.”October 27, 2014StudentsBenefits of Redefining Full-time Enrollment to 15 Credits a Semester ExaminedOne recent survey found that more than two-thirds of college students did not have a schedule that would enable them to graduate on time even if they never switched majors, failed a course or took an unnecessary course.October 14, 2014Faculty & StaffPanel: ‘Guru Mentor Model’ Not Practical for Promoting Diversity Within STEM ProfessoriateIn order to increase and maintain gender and ethnic diversity within the STEM professoriate, the “guru mentor model” should be scrapped and replaced with a more thoughtful approach to the specific needs that new STEM faculty members have as they seek to launch their careers.October 8, 2014Previous PagePage 43 of 80Next Page
