By Matt Reed. We have dual enrollment programs with most of the high schools in our county. The way the term is used here, that refers to college classes taken by high school students, whether taught in the high school or at the college. Read more...
Friday Fragments - February 2, 2017
By Matt Reed. Potentially losing an incentive for donations, Winona Ryder and more. Read more...
Welcome to Your First Day
By Elizabeth Coffman. Last Friday I boarded a plane to D.C. with my grown children, Nick and Katie. We walked on with a smiling mother/daughter “team” and confirmed that we were all heading to the same event—the (now) historic Women’s March on Washington. Read more...
All Work and No Play Makes for a Dull Grad Student
By Florianne Jimenez. We’re constantly told to go out and have fun, but never told how or what to do. Read more...
An Open EdTech Letter to Secretary DeVos
By Joshua Kim. Congratulations on your Senate confirmation as Secretary of Education. Read more...
The Ideological Bridging Potential of Reading 'Ghettoside'
By Joshua Kim. The idea of looking for ideological bridges might seem absurd in the early days of the Trump administration. Nobody seems to be in the mood for common ground. Read more...
DeVos Was Inevitable
By John Warner. Betsy DeVos as education secretary is the logical progression of decades of bipartisan "reform." Maybe now we can start resisting. Read more...
Christian Colleges in the Age of Trump
By Thomas Albert Howard. Christian colleges can provide a bridge between elite opinion and “red-state” America, writes Thomas Albert Howard. How might they rise to the occasion. Read more...
Trump's Entry Ban Remains Blocked
By Doug Lederman. A federal appeals court ruled today to keep in place a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order barring entry into the U.S. for nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries. Read more...
Cross-Country (and Credit-Bearing) Collaboration
By Doug Lederman. Boise State offers a Harvard Business School course (supplemented by Idaho university's own faculty experts) for credit to its students. Read more...