3-Year College Degrees Grow More Popular in the U.S., Saving Time and Cash. But Critics Aren’t Sold
This article was originally published in The Associated Press.Giles Sims, 34, was sick of getting passed over for jobs because he didn’t have a college degree.…
But with a wife and a widowed mother to help support, he needed a quic…
So the laid-off web developer turned to one of a growing number of thr…
“I can’t afford to be out of the workforce for four years.
Superintendents Want Schools to Change. New Study Examines Why It Doesn’t Happen
Walk into a public high school in New England, and it will likely look largely the same as it did 50 years ago: a bell schedule, class periods for each academic subject, students sorted into regular and honors tracks, teachers teaching a single subject, students generally compliant, passive and very bored.…
They still distribute opportunity, resources and credentials to differ…
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‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ ‘Goodnight Moon’ and the Case for Picture Books as Great Art
The children’s author Mac Barnett does not pull punches when it comes to his chosen profession: “If you don’t think children’s books are real books,” he writes, “on some level you don’t think children are real people.…
” The author of more than 70 books, Barnett has become a key evangelis…
As the Library of Congress’s ninth National Ambassador for Young Peopl…
And Barnett scored a rare feat for a children’s book author, this spri…
Laura Bornfreund opens her new book, “Rediscovering Kindergarten: Embracing Play & Joy in Kindergarten” by bringing readers inside her daughter Ainsley’s experience entering kindergarten in August 2017.…
The fact that Ainsley just started high school shows the long and thor…
Bornfreund — a senior fellow at New America, where she previously was …
In her book, she digs into the history of kindergarten and how it’s ch…
Reading Scores Continue to Drop for Many Middle Schoolers
For the most part, public school students have made significant strides in returning to subject proficiency levels from before the pandemic, according to a new study by NWEA.…
But a disturbing exception is the lowest-achieving students in middle …
The NWEA study finds that, not only have reading scores not stabilized…
The study draws on data from the MAP Growth National Dashboard and con…
College Admissions Testing is Returning to Mixed Reactions
Several leading colleges and universities are reinstating SAT or ACT scores as part of their admissions requirements after years of being "test blind" (not looking at standardized test scores, even if submitted).…
The move has revived the debate over the fairness and value of such te…
Institutions initially removed the test score requirements during the …
Since testing centers were shutting down, many students didn’t have ac…