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Beyond the Knapsack Author and educational scholar Peggy McIntosh’s innovations go beyond her familiar “Invisible Knapsack.” Learn how her method of Serial Testimony can empower your students. Tell Your Colleagues About Us! Like what you see? Forward this newsletter to your colleagues. If a friend sent this to you, sign up for your own FREE e-newsletter here . Resist a Simple Story This college student learned one simple story about the civil rights movement in her K-12 years. Now she’s helping to teach civil rights in more nuanced ways . Road Trip? Have you traveled with your students? How did i...

Authority in Cross-Racial Teaching and Learning (Re)considering the Transferability of Warm Demander Approaches

Does the "Negro" Still Need Separate Schools? Single-Sex Educational Settings as Critical Race Counterspaces

White Teachers in Urban Classrooms

MOOC Report: 99 free online courses starting in May 2014 » MOOC Report is a monthly column published by Class Central at the beginning of each month. It aims to provide a comprehensive list of courses starting that month. Self paced courses are not included in the report, but can be found at Class Central . See the list of 99 courses Ten most popular MOOCs starting in May, 2014 Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship R Programming The Data Scientist’s Toolbox Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence Getting and Cleaning Data M101J: MongoDB for Java Developers Calculus: Single Variable DQ 101: Introduction to Decision Quality Exploratory Data Analysis Statistical Inference Recent blog posts ...

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Oklahoma, Florida Students Experience Online Testing Disruptions

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  Employers, Community College Students Still Question Online Degree Credibility Online Education Information - Online Learning Statistics & Education News By Rachel Wang    the UMF/Flickr Traditional degrees still win out over  online degrees —at least in employers’ eyes. A new study titled “ Not Yet Sold: What Employers and Community College Students Think About Online Education ” revealed that employers are still skeptical about online degree quality. The report also revealed that community college students have concerns about online learning. The September 2013 study was released by Public Agenda, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that focuses on finding solutions for key issues, including higher education, energy issues, healthcare and the national debt. Read more...   Trends in E-Learning for Community Colleges Online Online ...

Data and Analysis The State of Academe The Chronicle takes the measure of higher education in the 2013-14 Almanac, our annual compendium of data on colleges. This year’s Almanac features many new tables and charts along with familiar ones. Choose a section below to start browsing. Profession Students Diversity Finance Technology International The States The Profession What subjects do the highest-paid faculty members teach? Which college presidents earn the most—and the least? Find answers in 20 tables, charts, and interactive tools. Interactive Tool: What Professors Make Interactive Tool: Highest-Paid Presidents Chart: Most-Recent Previous Positions of New College Chiefs Analysis: On Campuses: Clashes, Pay Divides, and Thwarted Careers Students College students’ aspirations, and what they have managed to achieve, are described in 17 tables, charts, and interactive tools. Table: A Profile of Freshmen at 4-Year Colleges Table: Large C...

pril 21, 2014 Those Master’s-Degree Programs at Elite U.? They’re For-Profit Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle Enlarge Image Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle By Kevin Carey H igher education has a long and fraught relationship with the labor market. From colonial colleges training clergymen to the Morrill Act, normal schools, and the great 20th-century expansion of mass higher education, colleges have always been in the business of training people for careers. The oldest university in the Western world, in Bologna, started as a law school. Ask students today why they’re going to college and the most common answer is, by far, "to get a job." But most colleges don’t like to see themselves that way. In educators’ own minds, they are communities of scholars above all else. Colleges tend to locate their educational missions among the lofty ideals of the humanities and liberal arts, not the pedestrian tasks of imparting marketable skil...

March 30, 2014 Basketball Academy's Empty Promises For one prep team, cramped apartments, 
a few bucks for pizza, and barely any school David Purdy for The Chronicle Kingdom Prep Academy practiced 
in Kingdom Courts 
in Des Moines. 
But the busy complex had room for the team only after 9 p.m. By Brad Wolverton S ix days before Christmas, Matt Najieb picked up a call from his son, Alex, an 18-year-old basketball player from Milwaukee who was spending the season at a prep school in Iowa. "Dad, they’re arresting the coach," Alex Najieb told his father. "They’re putting him in the police car right now." Alex’s team, Kingdom Prep Academy, had just finished a game in Idaho and was headed back to Des Moines through a snowstorm in Wyoming, when, according to a police video, its head coach, Joel D. Hannagan, had trouble controlling the team van. The police stopped him and found that he was driving with a suspended license. He was handcuffed and put i...