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Time to stop weeding out first- and second-year STEM students and ending careers before they begin
The education system graduates disproportionately low numbers of Black, Latino, Indigenous and women students in STEM majors. Weed-out courses are the first leak in the higher education pipeline preventing these groups from entering STEM professions, writes Senegal Alfred Mabry.
To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators
In Washington and a handful of other states, would-be teachers can now earn their degrees from community colleges, part of an effort to help diversify the profession.
How some liberal arts colleges are adding work-focused courses students want
Small colleges hope that joining the sharing economy can help keep them afloat.
One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis
With the highest median age of any state, Maine has seen an estimated 10 percent decline over the last 10 years in its number of new high school graduates. Yet UMaine has managed to increase its undergraduate enrollment during that period by about 5 percent. And the state’s community colleges, which depend on the same dwindling supply of learners, are reporting record numbers of applications for the fall.
An internship helped catapult me from homelessness to a full-time job
I am where I am now because of an internship opportunity through Compton College, and because Los Angeles County Social Services and Compton College’s education programs created a pathway that allowed me to achieve a better life for myself and my family, writes Jairo Salgado.
There are lots of bad ideas for solving the teacher shortage, but not enough for improving the profession
Let’s stop making matters worse and try to do more to keep US teachers in the classroom, writes Anne Lutz Fernandez.
Community schools promote equity: We need more of them
The U.S. Department of Education has invited applications for $68 million in grants for community schools, representing almost four times more money than was made available in 2018. And the Biden administration said it aims to dedicate as much as $468 million to community schools in 2023.
How higher education lost its shine
There has been a significant and steady drop nationwide in the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college in the fall after they finish high school — from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, the most recent year for which the figure is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Social and emotional learning may be the latest buzzword, but it’s really just good teaching
SEL has been and always will be central to good teaching, no matter what it is called, writes veteran educator Hayley Lindner.