The Biden Administration has halted student loan applications
On Friday morning the federal student loan forgiveness website was replaced with a message explaining that the program is currently...
The American Bar Association will vote next week on whether to end the LSAT requirement
During the pandemic, many universities made the decision to stop requiring the SAT/ACT or any standardized test for admissions. It...
The state of the Youth Voting Rights Act
The results from yesterday’s election are still coming in and a lot of things are being tabulated, but it is...
5 ways for students to deal with stress during finals
December is a stressful time for everyone, but for students this time of year contains the monsters of all anxiety...
Affirmative action for college admissions could get axed by the Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has taken up two cases against affirmative action in college admissions. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc....
Competency based education is having a moment
Competency based education (CBE), sometimes called outcome based education, has for years been a utopian ideal for technocratic reformers. The...
Computational Thinking and why its important for kids
Computational Thinking (CT) is emerging as a new key intellectual skill for children. In a 2021 ACM paper called Computational...
“Zoom seemed to bring more students into the conversation” and other pandemic insights from Stanford
Stanford just released a comprehensive educational report on the pandemic focusing on the “emergency remote teaching phase” which they identify...
3 reasons Social Emotional Learning is Vital
Social Emotional Learning has become one of the “hot buzzwords” in education and EdTech, but at its core, it has...
Big Data and student performance: Insights from an LMS
In our recent story about Google buying BrightBytes, there was a lot of discussion about what kind of data is...