Why school choice is winning, and how the Supreme Court could set it back
School choice, the idea that educational funding should follow students rather than school districts, has rapidly gained momentum over the last few years. Read more
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School choice, the idea that educational funding should follow students rather than school districts, has rapidly gained momentum over the last few years. Read more
The California Community Colleges system is investigating potentially widespread fraud involving fake “bot students” enrolled in active courses in what officials suspect is a scam to obtain financial aid or COVID-19 relief grants.
Journals that are part of Cambridge University Press’ Research Directions ‘will better reflect the research lifecycle’ and interdisciplinary research Read more
Pilot program introduced in northeast Ohio will allow students with stranded credits to settle their bills and have their transcripts released. Read more
More than 1,200 students in Oakland, California, have signed a petition saying they would stay home this week unless school administrators provide additional Covid protections, including more N95 masks, weekly testing and better social distancing – or a shift to virtual learning. Read more
In 1994, Susan Whitman received a package in the mail: it was a 12-week lecture series of VHS tapes for a university course on biochemistry, her very first experience with “asynchronous” learning. Read more
Students from The George Washington University College Republicans and College Democrats chapters are jointly protesting the school's investments in companies that may be complicit in the Uyghur genocide. Read more
The American Bar Association will consider a recommendation to eliminate the standardized test requirement for law school admissions. Read more
The British public are not bitterly polarised over trans equality, according to new research, which found a majority agreed schools should talk to pupils about transgender issues and that one in four knows a trans person personally. Read more
The discovery of thousands of undeclared private swimming pools in France has provided an unexpected windfall for French tax authorities. Read more