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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.
How Bad Is the Teacher Shortage? Depends Where You Live.
Urgently needed: teachers in struggling districts, certified in math or special education. Perks: maybe a pay raise, or how about a four-day week?
What is the Goal of Civics Education? Critical Thinking, Teachers Say
Using questions derived from an international survey of educators on civic instruction, the RAND study found that a majority of respondents, 68 percent, believed that promoting students’ critical and independent thinking was the top aim for civics education.
The catch-22 of career-connected learning
Career programs need buy-in from both employers and students, but who is going to move first? WorkShift talked with George Vinton, CEO of Common Group, about that challenge and more.
How school leaders are getting innovative in search for substitute teachers
Online training sessions and students' recommendations are helping speed up the process of filling open slots.
Fresno Unified gets 'game-changing' $20 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
The $20 million will enable the new Foundation for Fresno Unified Schools to create an endowment, producing $800,000 to $1 million annually, said Fresno Unified Superintendent Bob Nelson, who is on the foundation board.
Teachers rank the 10 main reasons to teach civics and citizenship
Preparing students for future political engagement ranked last when teachers were asked about the purpose of civics and citizenship education. The two topics are also often siloed into specific subjects, such as social science, rather than covered by teachers throughout a school’s curriculum, a new analysis finds.
Inventing a Job-Skills Machine
The free tool, called SkillsEngine, contains a large digital library of skills—more than 20,000 of them—needed for all the jobs you can think of—and, importantly, for occupations that don’t even exist yet.
To fill teacher jobs, community colleges offer new degrees
Community college-based teaching programs are rare, but growing. They can dramatically cut the cost and raise the convenience of earning a teaching degree, while making a job in education accessible to a wider diversity of people.