Grade-Level Allocation Failing Millions of Students, Report Says
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Federal and state level education policies that focus on grade-level proficiency are failing millions of students across America and putting the nations future prosperity at risk, a new policy brief has found. The publication from the Institute for Education Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Education sought More...
Reading Classic Literature for Fun and (Personal) Profit
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) By Sally Allen Every day around the world, thousands of people who boast little to no scholarly training in art history walk into museums. Despite this potential absence of knowledge More...
Parents ‘Pass’ Math Skills Down to Children, Study Suggests
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found in a recent study that if parents are skilled at math, their children have a good chance of being strong math students as well. More...
Nikon School Online Offers Photography Courses
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Nikon has announced the launch of a new online photography and video training program meant to further the skills of Nikon camera owners of all levels of knowledge. Nikon School More...
Open Educational Resources Adopted Slowly, Report Shows
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A recently-released report from Cengage Learning has examined open educational resources (OER) within higher education, including who makes use of the resources and why, as More...
1,300 Students, Staff Tested After Mercury Scare at Middle School
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) A small amount of mercury found at a Las Vegas middle school prompted federal officials to detain more than one thousand students for a total of 17 hours until they were able More...
U of Richmond Students Claim No Support on Rape Allegations
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Two University of Richmond students have announced that they were raped and are speaking publicly about what they are calling the school’s indifferent reply to their assertions. Their More...
Oregon’s Scores Flat in Second Year of Common Core Testing
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Students in Oregon performed approximately the same as they did last year on end-of-year reading, writing, and math performance assessments, although there was a modicum of improvement More...
Minnesota Lawsuit Combines Transgender Student, Twerking, Title IX
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A public high school in Minnesota has found itself in the center of a lawsuit claiming that it ignored accounts of a transgender student twerking and grinding, among other things, More...
Ball State U’s Virtual Charter School Faces Uncertain Future
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A struggling online school based out of Indianapolis has only narrowly avoided closure with a vote on the future of the school being postponed until mid-2017. Action on the Hoosier More...