During the height of the pandemic, Christina Scheffel, a high school English teacher in Delaware, was desperate for ways to get students engaged in her presentations. As a solution, she started adding embellishments to her slide presentations, including cactus themed...
Around the country, community colleges are stepping in to run apprenticeship programs for heritage industries, such as logging and aquaculture, which are too small to run. These partnerships help colleges expand the workforce development programs central to their mission. The...
The result is that 83% of online programs in higher education cost students as much as or more than the in-person versions, according to an annual survey of college online-learning officers. The survey was conducted by Eduventures, an arm of...
A draft of an executive order to eliminate the Education Department was prepared in early March, but Trump hadn’t signed it as of last week. Instead, McMahon said on Fox News that she began firing employees as a “first step”...
One of the main advantages of manuscript is that students encounter these letters in books. “Studies show that spending two years learning manuscript writing strengthens letter recognition and helps make writing automatic,” White explained. On the other hand, cursive can...
For child care programs, the strength and frequency of these myriad interactions between a caregiver and a child are central to quality. Babies need stimulation from a caregiver who talks frequently and responds to their sounds and cues. Older children,...
“You know weeds are going to grow in a garden, so you just need to be aware of that if you want to have a good garden, and regularly scan for weeds and pull them out where they exist,” he...
So, what would it be like to go back to those days? No social media scrolling, no mobile-app shopping, no streaming shows or media on your phone? The researchers measured three different outcomes of well-being, mood and attention at the...
Officials and teachers with three large districts in Nebraska declined to speak about Black history education this year, claiming it was either a sticky subject or citing the “evolving national dialogue around educational observances,” according to one school district. Tim...
However, these same children, the majority of whom were 14 or 15 years old, struggled to solve much simpler school math problems, such as basic division. (After making the purchases, the undercover shoppers revealed their identities and asked the sellers...
