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Higher education institutions must be prepared to provide high-quality education regardless of emerging trends and challenges.

Detroit schools closing due to underfunding and horrible conditions

A perception problem in public education

The importance of librarians in leadership positions

Dr. Turner Nashe’s remarkable story shows how injustices he suffered helped propel him to become involved in the welfare of inmates.

Our schools similarly need to light fires on the water and invite schools across the world in to share in learning starting from their own communities outward. These fires that burn on the water are a clarion call to see the local as global and to more deeply spark imagination, nourish learning, and build the innovation, action, and creativity young people need to face the problems they will one day inherit.

Records show that teacher programs throughout the State University of New York system have experienced a 40% decline in enrollment over the past five years.

“I’m trying to paint a picture of empowerment, of power, of positive energy, of collaboration. It seems like it’s pie in the sky. But, I see it working under our umbrella right now.” – Digit Murphy

According to a study published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 15-year-old Spanish students spend an average of 6.5 hours a week on assigned homework.