Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. I’ve always been a reader. I’m the kid who leafed randomly through the World Book Encyclopedia finding out things about Bolivia, carpenter ants and zygotes just because. More...
5 décembre 2016
5 décembre 2016
Potential brain benefits of bilingual education
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Brains, brains, brains. One thing we've learned at NPR Ed is that people are fascinated by brain research. And yet it can be hard to point to places where our education system is really making use of the latest neuroscience findings. More...
5 décembre 2016
Presidential election sparks a rise in campus unrest
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The day after Donald Trump was elected president, students at UC Irvine organized a “cry-in.”
“This is an actual event,” posted an Asian student group at the school.
It was also, perhaps, just a start. More...
5 décembre 2016
What inspires people, corporations to give to higher ed?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Giving in the United States exceeded more than $373 billion in 2015, the second consecutive year of record-breaking philanthropy for the nation at large. Colleges and universities accounted for more than $48 billion of that total, with nearly a third of those gifts going to just 20 elite campuses like Stanford University and Harvard University. More...
5 décembre 2016
StudentBridge assists educational recruiting
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. With college application season now in full swing, most students are looking to answer the question “Will I Get In?” as they embark on the arduous admissions’ process. On the institutional side, colleges and universities are actively marketing their schools in order to meet deadlines and fill their 2017 freshman classes. More...
5 décembre 2016
Students want to kill foreign language requirements
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In “The One Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song,” a 2007 YouTube gem, a guy named Mike woos a nonplussed paramour with such pillow talk as Me gusta la biblioteca and Vivo en la casa roja, illustrating the stark divide between the Spanish he learned in one semester of college (“I like the library”; “I live in the red house”) and the Spanish he’d actually like to know (presumably something about butts). More...
5 décembre 2016
Higher ed faculty skeptical about online course quality
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. While online learning continues to drive change in higher education, most faculty members remain skeptical about the quality of education offered via web-based courses. About one in five (19%) U.S. faculty members "agree" or "strongly agree" that online courses at any institution achieve student learning outcomes at least equivalent to those of in-person courses; nearly three times as many "disagree" or "strongly disagree" (55%). More...
5 décembre 2016
Three plus one equals affordable N.J. higher ed
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. What we need is creativity. What we need is collaboration. What we need is continued commitment to provide the best education possible — the best affordable education possible — for New Jersey college students. More...
5 décembre 2016
Georgia State students close education gap
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Stress is as familiar to college students as fast food and sleep deprivation. It’s always perched on their shoulders like a gargoyle. There are times it can become overwhelming. More...
5 décembre 2016
What Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary could mean for student debt
Submitted by Ray Bendici. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, has a pretty public record of her advocacy in the K-12 education space. But what her appointment would mean for college students and student loan borrowers remains less clear. More...
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