Legislation in California concerning ESL instruction reflects a huge lack of understanding of what it takes for the human brain to learn another language, writes Parviz Parsafar. More...

To help manage career college closures and protect students, Steve Gunderson backs a proposal for the sector to fund a new federal coordinating office. More...

Picture this: you’re a high school student from southeastern Idaho. You’ve already been automatically admitted to public higher education institutions, the University of Idaho included, on the basis of your academic qualifications. More...

Admissions work doesn't end just before the holiday break, writes Jim Jump. Early-decision and ethics issues still surface. More...

They prove the rights of both parties are not mutually exclusive, argues Meg Mott, and assume that survivors deserve to be treated as functional human beings. More...

By Ray Schroeder. Much is written about strengthening the link between education and employment. Jobs are changing and likely to continue to evolve over the coming decades. Education must evolve, too. More...

By Ray Schroeder. Google has dominated search for 20 years. But results today are far too often tainted with information that is incomplete, misleading or false. MIT aims to address that problem with the knowledge graph Underlay. More...

By Ray Schroeder. The promises of technologies and practices have fallen short more often than not. Just seven years ago, I was part of the early MOOC movement and felt the pulsating potential of teaching thousands of students around the world in a single class. The “year of the MOOC” was declared in 2012. Three years later, skeptics declared that the MOOC had died an ignominious death with high “failure” rates and relatively little recognition by employers. More...

By Ray Schroeder. MIT, once again, has taken a huge step toward further embedding technology into our lives.  In this case, it is giving voice to thoughts, speech to the speechless and opening the door to telepathy. More...

By Ray Schroeder. The growing use of voice search and virtual digital assistants will have an increasing impact on how we deliver, search for and market higher education. More...