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State Higher Ed Officials Do Away With the Term “Noncredit” A group of state higher ed leaders are on a mission to get rid of the term. They argue it underplays the value of these programs and shortchanges students.

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Justice Department Secures Agreement Reforming Alabama’s System for Educating Students with Disabilities in Foster Care Today, the Justice Department announced that it reached a landmark agreement with the State of Alabama to address allegations of discrimination against children in foster care with disabilities, in vi...

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Discipline Makes The Difference Why consistency can turbo-charge your consulting performance

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Why Non-Degree Data Needs a Redesign - Education Design Lab 7 (Hard-Earned) Insights on the Challenges of Collecting Short-Term, Non-Degree Program Data Part of the Impact by Design series Authored […]

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Five States Praised for Aligning High School and College Math Utah, Calif., Tenn., Ga. and Ore. are better preparing students for post-secondary math, often reducing the need for college remediation.

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How 12th Grade Math & Reading Scores Have Changed Over Time In the past three decades, the performance curve looks flatter with a few more high scorers but a lot more low performers.

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Progress on Chronic Absenteeism Has Slowed. Some Say McMahon Should Speak Up While states like Alabama have made strides, experts call on the Education Department to use its ‘powerful megaphone’ to make attendance a priority.

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Female, Black Faculty Overrepresented in Adjunct Ranks New data shows that 40 percent of the professoriate is composed of adjuncts who work for meager wages. And compared to their peers on the tenure track, adjuncts are more likely to be Black or female.

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NIH Avoided Cuts, but Lacks Permanent Leaders in Top Posts After Trump administration terminations and other departures, the federal research funding agency has acting directors leading more than half of its 27 institutes and centers.

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Split Times, Speed, Acceleration: What the Olympics Can Teach Kids About Math Bruhn: Grounding math in real-world problem solving means looking beyond textbooks to places where students encounter it outside the classroom.

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Boys & Girls Club Was a Great COVID Learning Pod, Now It’s Home to a School South Bend club sat empty all day until after school, so leaders let an ‘experiential’ charter school use it.

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What Happens in a Performer’s Brain While Playing Music?

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How to grab attention with data – my checklist for interactive storytelling David Foster explains how interactive charts and scrollytelling boost engagement, with a practical checklist for creating data stories using Flourish.

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Wichita State University Receives $2.5 Million Humanities Grant Wichita State University has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to create the Wichita HIREs program: Humanities Internships Reward Employers, an initiative designed to expand...

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How One University Trains and Retains Rural Care Providers Touro University builds clinics and trains physicians and dentists to serve remote parts of California and New Mexico, building a workforce that stays in those communities.

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Study Abroad Advocates Highlight Economic Benefits The Forum on Education Abroad presented the findings of several reports about the career outcomes associated with studying abroad, including higher starting salaries and, in some fields, a higher chan...

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The Fight Over Community College Bachelor’s Degrees Earning a four-year degree at a two-year institution is now possible in nearly half of all states—and others are exploring the option. But many universities are not happy about it.

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Introduction to Using Mixed Methods in Research Podcast Episode · The Method to Our Madness · 02/05/2026 · 33m

Do you think you know what mixed methods are? Even if you think you do, listen to our most recent episode. Our guest, John Hitchcock, provides an intro to mixed‑methods research and explains how combining data types strengthens evaluation and decision‑making:
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From Tasks to Meaning: How to Make Sure Reading Instruction Goes Deeper Reynolds, Rutherford-Quach and Cassidy: The curriculum is there. The materials are being used. But, in many classrooms, the meaning-making is missing.

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Want more Rainmakers? You have to build them, not buy them. Watch now | David A. Fields shares his 10-step roadmap for building Rainmakers in a consulting firm

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Why AI Literacy Instruction Needs to Start Before Kindergarten Waiting until kindergarten to start teaching AI literacy misses a key window of opportunity.

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New Report: National Group Cites 4 Pillars to Math Education For Young Kids PowerMyLearning, which aims to improve math outcomes for students in pre-K-5, claims consensus around this contentious topic.

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Staffing Déjà Vu: Districts Add 118,000 More Employees, Serve 135,000 Fewer Kids Aldeman: The fiscal cliff should have hit by now. But public schools are still on a hiring spree as student enrollment keeps dropping.

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National Internship Program Grows, Placing High Schoolers In Rare Corporate Jobs Nonprofit Genesys Works does the ‘heavy lifting,’ connecting nervous high school students with companies in eight cities.

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Post–SFFA Minority Enrollment Increased at Flagships Black and Hispanic enrollment dropped sharply at highly selective institutions, indicating students who may have gone to an Ivy League university may have ended up at their safety schools, according t...

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4-Year Institutions Eye Programs Eligible for Workforce Pell Four-year colleges and universities won nearly half of the FIPSE grants awarded for short-term programs eligible for Workforce Pell, surprising some community college leaders who have spent decades bu...

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Optionality Beats Star Power - How the Patriots and Seahawks Built Two Different Kinds of Super Bowl Rosters Why did two teams that missed the playoffs last year meet in the Super Bowl? The answer isn't star power. It's optionality: the number of ways a team can still win when the plan breaks. In a league de...

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How Intergenerational Day Centers Benefit Children, Families, Seniors and Providers Kindness Creators, a child care program housed in a senior facility in Illinois, builds empathy, fosters community and combats social isolation.

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