Parents opting to home-school beyond closures add to school finance concerns
Kristen Smith’s 10-year-old son is a self-motivated student who loves to learn. And while Smith has been told multiple times...
Year: 2020
NZ considers options to bring international students back to its campuses
Victoria University of Wellington vice-chancellor, Grant Guilford, revealed that institutions were mulling using charter flights to bring students safely to...
Study Texas launches video to promote state as study destination
According to the IIE’s Open Doors report, Texas is the third most popular spot for international students in the US,...
International students face “profound” problems with mental health due to crisis
In a set of interviews that took place as part of the PIE Perspectives video series, stakeholders explained that in...
Droplets app adjusts to help distance learners
Droplets – one of the company’s language learning apps teaching 32 languages which launched earlier this year – has adjusted...
College leaders call out racial inequities as protests roil the nation
Dive Brief: College leaders affirmed the need for continued work to address systemic racial inequity as protests over the death...
Consumer advocates ask FTC to probe income-share company Vemo
Dive Brief: Two consumer advocacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against income-share company Vemo Education, alleging...
Teacher survey: Meeting students’ needs, lack of PD among distance ed challenges
Dive Brief: Educators for Excellence’s recently released Voices from the (Virtual) Classroom survey indicates distance learning creates many obstacles for...
Remote assessment alternatives can go beyond measuring progress
Dive Brief: Educators may need to change how they assess students during the use of distance learning as a result...
Educators call for schools to be ‘safe havens’ against racism
Education leaders and organizations joined others Monday in condemning a Minneapolis police officer’s killing of a black man last week...
