Education Top Ten

Millions of students have returned to school after the coronavirus lockdown, but the learning they have lost will affect their future earnings for years to come. from Forbes Education

The application is submitted by more than 1 million students to more than 900 colleges and universities. from Forbes Education

Betsy DeVos's attempt to turn CARES money into private school vouchers failed. Now some Pennsylvania legislators are poised to try a similar sleight of hand. from Forbes Education

Less than a minute was spent addressing America's education system in the first 2020 Presidential Debate. The country's students, teachers, and schools require leadership from the highest levels to overcome the pandemic and maintain the promise of a high-quality education. from Forbes Education

New research confirms cheating in online exams is a major problem and proposes a grand bargain for students who want to "opt out" of exam supervision. from Forbes Education

Lies, Money and Cheating: The Deeper Story Of The College Admissions Scandal A new book tells the story behind Operation Varsity Blues. The juicy details demonstrate how the admissions process was already broken and extremely unfair. Read more on NPR

How do you put together a strong application when it’s nearly impossible to take an admissions test, your school switched to pass/fail grades in the crucial spring term of your junior year and your extracurriculars and summer job all got canceled because of the pandemic? from Forbes Education

Interviews with more than 75 people expose the deep problems threatening the College Board’s billion-dollar testing monopoly. The great-granddaddy of standardized tests may not survive from Forbes Education

Juggling Financial Stress And Caregiving, Parents Are 'Very Not OK' In The Pandemic The pandemic economy is squeezing families with kids: 74% of those earning less than $100,000 report serious financial woes, in an NPR poll. Experts worry about lasting impacts on kids' mental health. Read more on NPR

During lockdown, many families of children with special educational needs found themselves on their knees due to a lack of specialist support. Now, despite, a return in September, a perfect storm is brewing — exposing the fragilities within the sector and making winter closures a grim possibility. from Forbes Education

Confidentiality is always an issue in education. from Forbes Education

Oregon District Offers Online Learning After Wildfires Postpone School An Oregon school district hit by wildfires scrambles to create some normalcy and hold classes online. It's unclear how many families can participate since many of them have been displaced. Read more on NPR

A conversation with GSV Ventures managing partner Deborah Quazzo about the power of this year's ASU+GSV Summit to fuel critical innovation needed in education at this moment. from Forbes Education

'This Is Too Much': Working Moms Are Reaching The Breaking Point During The Pandemic The coronavirus did not create the struggles that working mothers face daily. But it has exacerbated them and made them more visible, forcing women of all income levels to make hard choices. Read more on NPR

Some students are calling for Rev. John Jenkins' resignation. from Forbes Education

Although legal discrimination has ended, institutions founded for comparatively homogeneous groups are still working to build genuinely inclusive environments. This is not news, and it’s not illegal. from Forbes Education

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, it’s financial impact on American colleges and universities is now estimated to substantially surpass $120 billion. from Forbes Education

Young Overachiever Might Make You Feel Like An Underachiever Ian Taylor Schlitz, 14, started taking college classes at the age of 12. He just got his associate degree from Tarrant County College in Texas. Ian's older sister was accepted into college at age 9. Read more on NPR

In a recent policy brief for the Niskanen Center, Robert Orr explains that the high cost of health care in the United States is a function of the relatively low number of new doctors that our higher-education system produces every year. from Forbes Education

The new $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package includes much of what was in the original bill passed in May, though is notably about $1 trillion cheaper. from Forbes Education

Many Arkansas Teachers Refuse In-Person Classes Amid COVID-19 Concerns Citing a lack of adherence to guidelines, teachers in Little Rock, Arkansas, have refused to teach in-person classes. The district is considering firing them. Read more on NPR

Many Arkansas Teachers Refuse In-Person Classes Amid COVID-19 Concerns Citing a lack of adherence to guidelines, teachers in Little Rock, Arkansas, have refused to teach in-person classes. The district is considering firing them. Read more on NPR

A crisis chorus said Covid-19 would cripple fall enrollment, it didn't. They could have known. from Forbes Education

It is time for university leaders to pay attention to public sentiment and to become more responsive to the wants and needs of the very citizens they are supposed to be serving. from Forbes Education

More than 1,400 students have tested positive for Covid-19 this semester. from Forbes Education

Underground 'HackTown' education facility teaches wannabe hackers how to become professional cybercriminals from Forbes Education

Early data suggest enrollments fell only modestly this fall, but this is the 9th year of decline, with significant long term effects. Little fundamental change, however, has come from the pandemic experience. from Forbes Education

In Internet Dead Zones, Rural Schools Struggle With Distanced Learning Many American schools are back in class via distance learning. It's stressful everywhere but especially in rural districts where most students lack high-speed Internet and cell phone service at home. Read more on NPR

If the Democrats don't act while the have the chance, Republican dominance could be made nearly permanent by the Supreme Court. from Forbes Education

NYC Principals Union Passes No-Confidence Vote Against Mayor And Schools Chancellor The union asked state authorities to intervene in New York City schools, just days before schools are set to open for in-person instruction. Read more on NPR

'It's Not Consistent': Oakland Principal Brings Food To Students Cut Off From Meals Juan Vaca, principal of Global Family Elementary School, a Title 1 school in Oakland, Calif., discusses how his students are experiencing food insecurity and what he's been doing about it. Read more on NPR

Decision making now includes more complexity, more stakeholders, and more agreements needed to be reached. Leaders need better tools and templates to make better decisions yielding coherent and effective change. from Forbes Education

How Louisiana Schools Are Doing After Hurricane Laura Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana last month, leaving a long trail of devastation. Public schools closed after the storm, but reopen this week with many buildings still damaged or destroyed. Read more on NPR

More time on social studies in elementary school boosts reading scores—but more time on reading doesn’t. Here’s why that counter-intuitive finding makes sense. from Forbes Education

A new book offers important global lessons for education leaders. from Forbes Education

How A Chicago Dad Developed A Coronavirus Testing Program For His Son's School Ed Campbell, a suburban Chicago dad and immunologist, adopted a COVID-19 screening program for his local school district. NPR's Scott Simon asks him about it. Read more on NPR

This week, the National Student Clearinghouse reported a 7.5 percent decline in enrollment in community colleges. Interest in enrolling in further education has increased, so why hasn’t that interest translated into actual college enrollments? from Forbes Education

Educators Share Their Thoughts On Teaching During The Pandemic From socially distanced in-person classes to virtual-only school and everything in between, this semester looks different. Teachers from around the country talk about how they're adjusting. Read more on NPR

Coal Miner's Daughter Is A Heartwarming Hero In Afghanistan Shamsia Alizada dropped out of the Madwdud Academy in Kabul after a suicide bomber killed more than 40 students. But she returned — and has scored top grades on the country's college entrance exams. Read more on NPR

This financial burden means that even when high-speed broadband does expand to cover all rural areas, it needs to be affordable. from Forbes Education

This summer Defending the Early Years conducted a survey looking at the effects of pandemic early childhood education, and they’ve just released the results. from Forbes Education

A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives would allow college athletes to capitalize off their name, image, and likeness, something that has been vigorously opposed in the past by the NCAA and many university officials. from Forbes Education

Learning and development professionals, people managers and employees at all levels need to build better ways to mine, organize and learn from all the content at their fingertips. from Forbes Education

U.S. higher education enrollments are on a decade-long decline. And the trend could continue for another decade if institutions refuse to make major changes. from Forbes Education

Stating that higher education is not principally (or at all) a private good is ludicrous. R.B.G.’s opinion in VMI is about ensuring that the “unique education benefits” are made available not to some amorphous collective, but to specific individuals who meet admissions standards. from Forbes Education

A state audit found the decision to admit this applicant was “likely influenced” by the Bum’s advocacy. from Forbes Education

In this post, I examine the potential of GPT-3, the AI program by OpenAI. It started out as a language model to predict the next word in a sentence and has vastly exceeded that capability. from Forbes Education

A growing chorus of advocates are calling on Congress to invest in low-income students. from Forbes Education

A quarter of U.S. high schools with majority Black and Latinx students do not offer key STEM courses. More than 90% of districts serving Black and Latinx students can't recruit & retain STEM teachers. We found three powerful levers to make sure more students have the opportunities they deserve. from Forbes Education

Since June, Beloit College has been meeting with student leaders to figure out how to maintain the aspects of campus life that students value most—including student gatherings—while keeping the community safe this fall. So far, Beloit's approach seems to be working. from Forbes Education

It's not just race that big organizations fail to see. It's lower economic class, as well. from Forbes Education

Visual education company SketchyMedical, which creates animated sketches to help medical students memorize complex information, announced today that it has received a $30 million majority stake investment from investment firm The Chernin Group (TCG). from Forbes Education

Students could be confined to campus for Christmas to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus, England’s Health Secretary warned today. from Forbes Education

A coalition of private, public, and academic leaders in the Louisville region have combined resources to create a future-ready local workforce through training and development in high-demand data science skills and capabilities -- offered for free to Louisville residents. from Forbes Education

School Attendance In The COVID Era: What Counts As 'Present'? With millions of students logging in from home, the pandemic has disrupted the traditional school function of making sure students are "in school." Read more on NPR

Preliminary, national data show that fall undergraduate student enrollment has declined 2.5%, while graduate student enrollment is up 3.9%, as of September 10. from Forbes Education

Fewer Students Are Going To Community College, Despite High Unemployment Often during a recession, enrollment in community colleges goes up. The first numbers for this fall show a decline — down nearly 8% compared with last year. Read more on NPR

Audit: University Of California Admitted 64 Students Over More Qualified Applicants The students admitted were well-connected to staff or donors and took spots from more qualified applicants. Read more on NPR

The threat of Covid-19 has not disappeared, but schools are reopening anyway. from Forbes Education

Emerging technology can give us ownership of our learning achievements and allow us to share our know-how and can-do with potential employers and academic institutions. This technology—called the Learning and Employment Record, or LER—has the potential to open pathways to opportunity for many. from Forbes Education

California Community Colleges are expecting a significant decrease in student enrollment for the fall, perhaps as much as 7% overall, with some individual campuses projecting losses as high as 20%. from Forbes Education

As universities in the U.K. begin the new academic year, disabled students are alarmed at the simultaneous resurgence of coronavirus. The social experience of university will be very different this year but the drive towards online learning creates fresh impetus to ensure universal accessibility. from Forbes Education

“Across the campaign, we have HBCU alumni leading in senior roles, which speaks volumes to what our institutions produce.” from Forbes Education

New Dashboard Tracks Coronavirus Cases In Schools Across 47 States The effort, still in its early stages, hopes to track infections and determine the effectiveness of safety measures. Read more on NPR

Parents, Child Charged After Underage Drinking Party Led School To Online Classes The party, which police estimate had at least 50 students in attendance, led to the local high school delaying in-person learning by two weeks as a precaution against COVID-19. Read more on NPR

Michigan Offers Free College Education To Essential Workers Michigan is offering two years of free community college to essential workers who have worked during the pandemic. The definition is loose, and more than 600,000 residents could qualify. Read more on NPR

A new report considers the effects of tuition-free community college programs and their impacts on enrollment and degree completion. from Forbes Education

The university “undermined the fairness and integrity of its admissions process and deprived more qualified students of the opportunity for admission,” the audit found. from Forbes Education

Millions of students around the world have been using digital learning platforms during lockdown, but analysis found that even government recommended sites did not go far enough in protecting children's privacy. from Forbes Education

A joint effort to review district reopening plans has shed light on examples of creativity, innovation, and ingenuity in preparing to meet the education challenges of COVID-19. from Forbes Education