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Should students be concerned about the new MCAT?
Lauren Swan EducationThe Medical College Admission Test is changing in 2015, and students who want to avoid taking it are running out of time to do so. The new MCAT is both longer and more challenging, with added science sections as well as larger study requirements, some of which are not required to enter medical school. This leaves students in between a rock and a hard place. Do they cram for the last 2014 MCAT or do they spend another potential semester in school to take the new classes that will be required for the MCAT?
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Recess redress: The importance of play in education
Suzanne Mason EducationAsk any child what his or her favorite subject is in school, and most will say recess. Yet a 2010 Gallup poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that up to 40 percent of U.S. school districts have reduced or eliminated recess to focus more on academics. Despite these changes, recess still remains an important part of a child’s education. Here's how.
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Just how serious is the tech world about diversity?
Ross Lancaster Science & TechnologyThis summer, Silicon Valley companies and the tech world at large have come under fire for their hiring practices with regard to both racial and gender diversity. The issue ignited in May when, under pressure from civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson, Google released statistics stating that just 17 percent of its tech staff is female, 1 percent black and 2 percent Hispanic. Meanwhile, 60 percent are white and 34 percent Asian.
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QZAB: The secret funding resource for superintendents
Art Stellar EducationThe Qualified Zone Academy Bonds (QZAB) program has been in existence for 15 years, yet most superintendents know little about it. Therefore, in some states these bond funds go unused year after year until they run out of time and essentially evaporate.
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US falls behind on innovation in education
Bambi Majumdar EducationAll is not well in the U.S. education system, which has been battling many fires in recent times. The latest blow comes from the report, "Measuring Innovation in Education," recently released by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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The hidden victims of Ferguson are the children
Danielle Manley EducationTo everyone outside of Ferguson, Missouri, the images of riots, damaged businesses and police officers standing in front of military-style vehicles with weapons drawn was everything. What about the citizens not on the streets? What about the children? Not every resident of Ferguson was rioting, but they were forgotten.
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Facilitating an end to the troubling lack of student responsibility
Debra Josephson Abrams EducationAnother sleepless night. A few days ago, I read my end-of-term student evaluations. As has become all too familiar to me recently, too many were disparaging, hostile and hateful. I haven't slept much since.
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Grading practices that better support 21st‑century learning
Brian Stack EducationIf you'd like to see just how polarized a high school faculty can be, survey them on how much they think homework should count in their overall course grade. You'll get the full range of responses from zero to 100 percent.
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Leveraging technology to determine school vision
Thomas Van Soelen EducationJeff Homan, principal of The Main Street Academy, a start-up K-8 charter school in College Park, Georgia, leveraged technology as the school revisited its core documents in preparation for both an accreditation visit and a re-chartering process with the local school district, both occurring every five years.
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Report shows grim economic outlook for colleges, universities
Bambi Majumdar EducationThe latest median report on public universities released by Moody's Investors Service does not have good news to deliver. As one of the most reputable credit rating agencies in the country, Moody's has been a veritable benchmark for U.S. higher education status and progress. Like the past few years, limited revenue growth from tuition and falling enrollments do not augur well for the future of our colleges.
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