Another mega fundraising campaign goes public: UC Berkeley eyes $6B
Dive Brief: The University of California, Berkeley, is aiming to raise $6 billion by the end of 2023, joining a...
Month: March 2020
DC area school districts revamp policies to address bias, hatred
Montgomery County, Maryland, has had a nondiscrimination public school policy since 1969. But when three swastika drawings were found in the same...
COIL opens opportunities for students in US and Japan
Students have benefitted from two initiatives that seek to enhance initial online exchanges with direct student-to-student interactions. “It is difficult to...
Put visual arts centre stage in K12 education, says HundrED
The Spotlight on Visual Arts aims to bring visual communication skills on par with literacy and numeracy, and will showcase leading innovations...
Nasarawa Assembly tasks contractors on quality assurance
Nasarawa State House of Assembly Committee on Education has urged contractors handling construction and rehabilitation of primary school projects, to...
College completion rates still rising in most states
Dive Brief: Most states increased their six-year completion rates between 2009 and 2013, new data from the National Student Clearinghouse...
Research: Charters lack specialized expertise, resources for special ed programs
Dive Brief: Research from the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) shows parents of students with disabilities often struggle to find...
New rules limit states’ oversight of online colleges. How will they react?
State attorneys general were left out when the U.S. Department of Education rewrote its state authorization rules for distance education....
Brooklyn’s UFT Charter School requests to transition to traditional public school
Dive Brief: The Board of Trustees for UFT Charter School in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood voted last week to...
Should school physical fitness tests measure body fat?
Dive Brief: California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing an end to the state’s 25-year-old school physical fitness test, dubbed FitnessGram,...
