by Ainsley O’ConnellSchool leaders and industry partners are reinventing vocational education for low-income students. Can the new model work?Read the rest of the story at Fast Company.
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by Ainsley O’ConnellSchool leaders and industry partners are reinventing vocational education for low-income students. Can the new model work?Read the rest of the story at Fast Company.
Photo credit: David MorrisFour in 10 of the first students to pay higher fees do not believe their courses have been good value for money, a survey for BBC Radio 5 live suggests.Just over half say their university course has been good value and about 8% are undecided.Read the rest of the story at BBC.com.
Karl Rectanus, Co-Founder and CEO of Lea(r)n, spent time talking about the process decision makers endure to select edtech products and how there is another method. Lea(r)n provides educators a place at the proverbial table to reflect and rate technology before districts make expensive decisions with long-term impacts. Rectanus comes to Lea(r)n as a former educator and administrator. *Dummy data used to generate example above
by Jordan ShapiroWhat are the biggest obstacles to changing education? Some are economic. Others are infrastructural. Few are technological. The most significant challenges are philosophical. We are wedded to particular ways of thinking about school and learning and life that are limiting our ability to best serve our children.Read the rest of the story at Forbes.
Photo credit Vdeb40by Sheryl Gay StolbergWASHINGTON — Sweet Briar College, the women’s liberal arts college in rural Virginia that announced it would close in August — setting off a storm of protest and lawsuits from students, faculty and alumnae — will remain open for at least another academic year under an agreement announced Saturday by the attorney general of Virginia.Read the rest of the story at The New York Times.
Could Hillary Clinton bring together a party splintered over education policy?by Allie BidwellOutside of local elections, education policy has never been an issue that makes voters flock to the polls. It’s just not as sexy as raising or lowering taxes, nor as anxiety-inducing as foreign relations and national security.Read the rest of the story at U.S. News.
