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Back to High School, After Missing So Much
Students missed homecoming, field trips and classes, while also handling anxiety and economic precarity. Now, they must leap into the future, with the school’s help.
A ‘Loud and Clear’ Call to Invest in Black Men
College and university leaders are taking steps to counter the sharp decline in enrollment among Black men during the pandemic.
‘Connecting College and Careers’: An Inside Higher Ed Report
A new report from Inside Higher Ed, “Connecting College and Careers,” aims to shed light on some of the most promising experiments to give graduates a boost as they seek well-paying jobs, particularly students who are women or people of color.
Teacher of the Year 2021: Rafael Cruz, Los Angeles Unified School District
Rafael Cruz, a Linked Learning teacher at Hollenbeck Middle School in Los Angeles USD, has been named a 2021 Teacher of the Year!
College Board announces easier CSS Profile, plus a 'lighter, shorter' version
Students from families earning up to $100,000 will now be able to freely apply to the College Board's CSS Profile, a tool used by some 300 colleges to award students institutional financial aid packages.
Big questions about the 2021 standardized test scores
2021 test scores are being released by states, and nearly everywhere, scores are down.
Expanding Local Community College Transfer Pathways
In a recently published brief, Inside Higher Ed explores the supply of qualified community college students located locally, students they call “transfer-ready.” Specifically, the report focuses on private institutions with graduation rates consistently above 70 percent, as those are the institutions where the disparities in community college transfer enrollment are most pronounced.
COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff
Public schools have struggled for years with teacher shortages, particularly in math, science, special education and languages. But the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the problem.
A Once-In-a-Generation Opportunity: What States and School Districts Can Learn from the American Rescue Plan
This historically large investment provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn what kinds of interventions work well for America’s students.