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How to start ending the school-to-prison pipeline — by an educator just elected to the U.S. HouseJamaal Bowman was the founder and principal of the public Cornerstone Academy for Social Action Middle School in the Bronx before he was elected in November to the House of Representatives, after defeating a 16-term incumbent who was expected to win his primary earlier that year.Bowman has long been focused on social justice and that’s the subject of this post, in which he urges the Biden administration to focus on ending the school-to-prison pipeline.Biden’s choice for education secretary, Miguel Cardona, the state superintendent of Connecticut, goes before a Senate committee on Wednesday for his confirmation hearing, and is expected to be approved by the full Senate.Bowman addresses his comm...

Catching up with Coddling part eight: Some big wins for free play and childhood independenceEDITOR’S NOTE: This is the eighth part of a multi-part series updating developments since the publication of “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure” (2018).  Earlier in this series:  In “The Coddling of the American Mind,” the fourth “causal thread” Jon Haidt and I identified to explain some unique and troubling trends within Generation Z (roughly those born between 1996 and 2016) was the diminishment of free play, unstructured time, and childhood independence. Unlike the previous entries in Catching Up With Coddling, which covered trends that have gotten worse, the movement for free play and childhood independence has...

U.S. Department of Education Releases Digital Learning Guides for Teachers and School Leaders The U.S. Department of Education is excited to announce the release of two new resources that help teachers and school leaders meet the needs of their students by using thoughtful and creative digital learning experiences. The Teacher Digital Learning Guide (Teacher Guide) and the School Leader Digital Learning Guide (Leader Guide) are designed to provide educators and leaders resources as they use digital tools to better help students learn. Students rely on technology especially when learning in virtual, hybrid and limited school opening environments. These guides provide strategies to help teachers and leaders effectively use digital learning strategies both inside and outside the classroom. T...

Class of 2025 – The Big SqueezeAnother year for the record books, as top colleges and universities see their overall application volumes soar in this most unprecedented cycle. Among the eye-popping statistics we’ve seen, NYU tops 100,000 applications, Harvard’s pool grows by 57 percent, and Colgate receives double the number of applications as compared to last year. TEST-OPTIONAL = DRIVING FORCE This year’s across-the-board test-optional admissions policies at top colleges are driving the increased volume, but so is nervousness about getting in. After record early admission application growth in the fall that saw greater numbers of students deferred or denied than in previous years (80 percent of Harvard’s early applicants were deferred, for instance), students naturally sought t...

Quality doctoral programmes are vital for developmentGHANA Ghana’s National Accreditation Board was established in 1993 by the government of Ghana for four primary purposes. One is giving official quality approval to both public and private tertiary education institutions in terms of curricula content and standards of academic programmes. Two, it constantly monitors tertiary education institutions to ensure compliance with normative standards and ethics of organisation, governance, academic and administrative leadership. Three, it ensures that education institutions satisfy appropriate standards in physical facilities such as classrooms, laboratories, academic and professional staffing. Four, it determines the equivalence of degrees, diplomas and certificates awarded by institutions ins...

Expect the UnexpectedBenchmarking Course Costs and Margins:Gray Associates has begun developing benchmarks on revenue, direct instructional cost, and gross margin by academic program, course, and section. Our first cut at the data, for 100 to 400-level courses in small colleges had some surprising results. A word of caution, these are early results on a sample of schools. As the sample grows, the results may change. (more…)