Education In The News May 26
Every day I’m sharing highlights from the day’s education news. Today’s noteworthy nuggets: summer school registration at public colleges and universities is on the rise, college courses can open up opportunities to a more diverse student population and a Columbia University student demonstrates why a good education is about more than just grades.
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for summer school at public colleges and universities, reported Inside Higher Ed this week.
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can open up opportunities for a greater diversity of students, Education Week reports this week.
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reported by ABC News involving Columbia University’s valedictorian and some plagiarized comedic material brings into sharp focus the need for a quality education to impart more than just book smarts.
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Education Week reports a for promoting a $23 billion education jobs bill in Congress.
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Jay Williams over at The Washington Post to discuss how we should measure teacher effectiveness (or, as we call it here at Civil Beat, teacher accountability. He notes that right now we rely almost exclusively on test scores, which may be an unfair measuring tool since some teachers’ students don’t take tests.
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Someone else almost always has it worse: About one-third of Oregon’s high-schoolers , according to an AP report in Education Week today. By comparison, about 75 percent of Hawaii’s students graduate on time.
Weigh in on these and other education issues in our ongoing education conversation.
