Category: Higher Education

 The ABA is once more looking to give up LSAT necessities. Will it stick this time? law faculties might also now not need to require applicants to provide standardized exam ratings inclusive of the law college Admission check beneath a recommendation being taken into consideration via the american Bar affiliation. The ABA will vet the…

 How Hampshire college is rebuilding its enrollment The liberal arts group in Amherst, Massachusetts, which first admitted college students in 1970, changed into long regarded for its focus on alternative schooling and self-directed examine. however early in 2019 its leaders introduced that they had been seeking a long-term partnership within the face of economic challenges.…

To End Discipline Disparities Affecting Students of Color, Challenge the Status Quo What are strategies schools can implement to reduce and eliminate disparities in discipline affecting students of color? This series serves as a sort of “Part Two” to a previous series guest-edited by Terri N. Watson, Ph.D. Those responses specifically focused on discipline disparities…

Supreme Court Will Decide Fate of Student Loan Relief: What Teachers Need to Know The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard more than three hours of oral arguments about President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student loan debt relief plan, which remains on hold—a major test of executive branch power watched by millions of teachers carrying…

How Schools Can Support Arab and Muslim Students According to the Arab American Institute, Arab Americans make up about 3.5 million of the population in the United States, which is a very small group given the size of other communities of color in the country. According to the Pew Research Center, Muslims are also one…

School Reform Is Tough All Over, Not Just in the U.S. Spain’s former Secretary of State for Education Montse Gomendio is out with a book drawing on her experience, titled Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence. Montse, the former head of the OECD’s Centre for Skills and director of Spain’s Natural History Museum…

Foundations Have Given Money to Schools for a Long Time. What’s Actually Working? Back in 1988, not long after U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett declared it the “worst” district in the country, the Illinois legislature passed the Chicago School Reform Act. The bill created elected school boards for every school in the system. It…

Tips for Encouraging English-Learners to Practice Speaking I am an educator from a diverse background, so this topic resonates with me on a personal and professional level. My own children are (former) English-learners, and I work in a Title I school where 11 out of my 17 students are English-learners. I have created a classroom…