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Postsecondary

April 29, 2016

Distance Education Students and Their Access to State Financial Aid Programs

Students, postsecondary institutions and policymakers are turning to online education to meet individual educational needs, support presumed reductions in college costs and expand access for post-traditional students. Nationally, one […]

Postsecondary

April 28, 2016

Navigating the “Great Divide”: Transfer policies across the states

One-third of college students transfer to a different institution at least once in their college career. This statistic alone highlights the need to provide multiple pathways for students to successfully […]

K-12 Postsecondary

April 26, 2016

Join us for a learning experience you won’t forget!

This blog is a guest post by Rep. Wendy Horman. She represents District 30 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She currently serves on the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee, serving as […]

K-12

April 19, 2016

Computer Science: Crossing party lines [of code]

Computer science continues to be a hot topic for policymakers across role groups and party lines. Part of this interest is driven by data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics […]

K-12

April 13, 2016

Preparing Citizens and Civic-Learning Course Designation in Massachusetts Higher Education

As Massachusetts acts to fulfill the goal of their Higher Education Vision Project to “produce the best-educated citizenry and workforce in the nation,” they see a critical strategy in civic […]

Postsecondary

April 12, 2016

Where You Live Rather Than What You Know? The Problem With Education Deserts

This post was co-authored with guest author Nicholas Hillman, an assistant professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. To increase educational attainment levels, the process of […]

K-12

April 6, 2016

Keeping Tabs on Dual Enrollment

The latest update to Education Commission of the States’ 50-State Comparison on dual/concurrent enrollment was released last week. This is the third update to this resource initially released in 2008. […]

K-12

April 4, 2016

Spring Cleaning on Teacher Evaluation

This blog is a guest post written by Marisa Goldstein with the Aspen Institute Education & Society Program. With the days getting longer and warmer, it’s high time for spring […]

Postsecondary

March 30, 2016

Student Free Speech

Younger Americans often carry many labels, some fair and some unjust. They refuse to eat cereal because they’re too lazy to wash a bowl; they’re egomaniacs who love taking selfies; […]

March 23, 2016

Part-Day or Full-Day Kindergarten?

The experiences of children birth to age five have tremendous impact on their readiness for kindergarten. The approaches to learning, executive function, interest and persistence, flexibility, social and emotional development, […]

Postsecondary

March 16, 2016

(College) Ready or Not, Here Comes ESSA!

The latest reauthorization of the ESEA, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, provides a great deal of testing flexibility to states. At the high school level, it specifically allows […]

K-12

March 9, 2016

The Presidential Election and Education Funding

Sometimes the numbers can be overwhelming – there are more than 50 million students in America’s K-12 public education system. Our public schools employ 3.1 million educators along with an […]

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Distance Education Students and Their Access to State Financial Aid Programs

Navigating the “Great Divide”: Transfer policies across the states

Join us for a learning experience you won’t forget!

Computer Science: Crossing party lines [of code]

Preparing Citizens and Civic-Learning Course Designation in Massachusetts Higher Education

Where You Live Rather Than What You Know? The Problem With Education Deserts

Keeping Tabs on Dual Enrollment

Spring Cleaning on Teacher Evaluation

Student Free Speech

Part-Day or Full-Day Kindergarten?

(College) Ready or Not, Here Comes ESSA!

The Presidential Election and Education Funding