Kids are arriving on college campuses with fewer skills and diminished attention spans. But, rather than challenge students, many colleges are lowering institutional standards to accommodate them.
Scaling developmental education reforms is absolutely necessary to improve outcomes for students and build greater public trust in postsecondary education.
Candidates for governor and state superintendent of public instruction should be ready to discuss how they'd replace ...
The “crisis” in college math readiness prompted a new inquiry from Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to 35 universities.
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Edcom 2 and the dilemma of mass promotion

No one who cares about the state of education in our country can ignore the more than 600-page final report recently released by the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2). Drawing ...
The inquiry comes after a viral faculty report from the U. of California at San Diego found that the number of freshmen ...
UNICEF works with partners to ensure that schools provide a safe, inclusive and healthy environment for learning, which helps ...
Data released on Thursday by the Oregon Department of Education shows the state reached an 83% graduation rate across the ...
Strong Start to Finish—a national network dedicated to ensuring students complete gateway math and English in their first year of college and an initiative of Education Commission of the States—today ...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular coursework. But a growing body of research ...