What Students Want Colleges to Know About How They Learn
Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening...
View ArticleWhat Students Gain When They See Parents Struggle
The first weeks of school sparkle with promise: Fresh classes, different teachers, new students. Reviews of materials from the previous year aim to give students a sturdy path. It’s almost as if...
View Article‘Dear Mr. Zuckerberg’: Students Take Summit Learning Protests Directly to...
Earlier this month, a group of high school students in New York City took to the streets to protest their school’s online program, Summit Learning. On Thursday, hoping to send a stronger message, they...
View ArticleStudents Say Poor Social and Emotional Skills Are Leaving Them Unprepared
When and how should students learn social and emotional skills—between first-period biology and third-period English literature? After lunch and before U.S. history?It might seem strange to squeeze in...
View Article3 Reasons Students Aren’t Into Computer Science—Yet
I attended Everest Public High School in Redwood City, Calif., and during the years that I was in high school, never once did I hear about computer science, coding or hackathons. To this day, I still...
View ArticleWhat Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education
There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. But too often, a critical element is left out of the process:...
View ArticleMore Students Are Becoming Activists. Teachers Can Help Strengthen Their Voice.
Clara immediately stood out as a different sort of high school student—and yet, she was a type of different I have started to spot more and more.read more
View ArticleIts 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?
When tech giant Amazon announced its search for a second headquarters site, cities across the country scrambled to produce persuasive pitches. In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen...
View ArticleHow an Alternative School Helped One Student Find His Way From Suspension to...
“When I come to school I got hella things on my mind. Sometimes I don’t even sleep at night. I go hungry on purpose, cause I lose my appetite. I get to school and make myself angry. I was raised to...
View ArticleA Student Improved a Classroom Tech Solution—So the Company Hired Him
Tom Sargent, the information technology administrator at the King David School outside of Melbourne, had seen students try to tweak the school’s technology systems before. But when 10th grader Dean...
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