By Megan Rogers. Joshua Trader dropped out midway through his first semester at Delta College because the "timing wasn’t right." In doing so, he became another statistic of the sort often used to bemoan the performance of community colleges: of those pursuing two-year associate degrees, only 18.8 percent of full-time students graduate within four years, as do 7.8 percent of part-time students, according to a report from Complete College America. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Some things are better worn than said. At least that's what one Austin Community College professor of English thinks, based on his "It's in the syllabus" T-shirt.
A student posted a photo on Reddit and Imgur of David Lydic flashing the shirt this week, with the caption, "Frustrated with the same old questions, my professor ripped off his shirt in the middle of lecture." Read more...
By Valerie Strauss. A number of recent articles have addressed the relative importance of some of the information used in the college application process. Taken as a group, these articles call into question just about every bit of data and writing students are asked to submit—a point not lost recently on Dennis Eller, College Counselor at Canterbury School in Fort Wayne, Ind., who offered this humorous summary on a counselors’ listserv. It is followed by a footnote from counselor Patrick O’Connor of Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Read more...
By Valerie Strauss. In recent years we’ve seen the rise of big money being poured into local school board races from well outside the district, or city or even state where the election is being held. Millions were spent, for example, in Los Angeles school board races earlier this year. In April I published a piece by a teacher in New Jersey who blogs under the name “Jersey Jazzman” about the financing of a local school board campaign, and here is a new one, about another election and the same pattern of outside funding. A version of this appeared on the Jersey Jazzman blog. Read more...
By . A majority of students in public schools throughout the American South and West are low-income for the first time in at least four decades, according to a new study that details a demographic shift with broad implications for the country. The analysis by the Southern Education Foundation, the nation’s oldest education philanthropy, is based on the number of students from preschool through 12th grade who were eligible for the federal free and reduced-price meals program in the 2010-11 school year. Read more...
By Valerie Strauss. Unobtrusively slipped into the debt deal that Congress passed late Wednesday night to reopen the federal government after 16 days and allow the United States to keep borrowing money to pay its bills is a provision about school reform that will make Teach For America very happy. Read more...
By Valerie Strauss. Yesterday I wrote a post about how public education’s biggest problem — poverty — keeps getting worse, with the news from a new report that a majority of students in public schools in the American South and West are low-income for the first time in at least four decades. Here’s a related piece which argues that policy makers own life circumstances affect the way they make school reform decisions for the poor. Jack Schneider (@Edu_Historian) is an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross and the author of the forthcoming book From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship Becomes Common Knowledge in Education. Heather Curl is a lecturer at Bryn Mawr College. Both authors are former classroom teachers. Schneider also founded University Paideia, a pre-college program for under-served students in the San Francisco Bay Area. His research focuses on educational policy-making and school reform. Read more...
Blog Headway - Olivier Rollot. En écrivant le 19 septembre aux écoles d’ingénieurs qu’elles devaient recueillir un «avis d’opportunité préalable» au dépôt de tout dossier, la Dgesip (direction générale pour l’enseignement supérieur et l’insertion professionnelle) est en train de provoquer une levée de boucliers dans les écoles à laquelle s’associent cette semaine la CGE et la Cdefi. Rien d’étonnant quand on lit que cet avis devra permettre de «s’assurer notamment que le nouveau cursus s’inscrit dans la stratégie globale de l’établissement et est organisé en complémentarité avec ses autres formations déjà existantes». De plus, l’école «devra démontrer que le projet est conforme aux potentialités du vivier de recrutement». Suite...Blog Headway - Olivier Rollot. Plus importante école d’ingénieurs française de par ses effectifs derrière Arts et Métiers ParisTech avec quelques 700 diplômés chaque année, l’ESTP a vu le taux d’activité des diplômés de sa dernière promotion augmenter de 6% en un an : au premier trimestre 2013, 76% ont un emploi contre 70% l’an dernier. La poursuite d’études est également en hausse à 21%. Seulement 2% des diplômés 2012 étaient eux en recherche d’emploi. «Dans un contexte française déprimé la qualité du travail des entreprises française du BTP reste reconnue dans le monde entier et assure une bonne insertion professionnelle à nos diplômés», se réjouit Florence Darmon, la directrice générale de l’ESTP. Suite...
By . There is a bit of a fork in the road with my PhD research. I can feel it. As data from my pilot study is seeping in, my head seems to want to tell me something, but the thoughts have not crystallized into conscious ideas yet.
So yesterday I took my doubts to the public, that is to say: I proposed it to my colleagues and that already twisted my mind towards some new ideas (and I put some of the remarks they shared into the powerpoint below). But now I would like to hear your views as well. What would you research if you were me? In order to provide some background, slides were shared. More...
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