International
Effective education system – A must for nation building | The Indian system of education is built on the presumption that if something is good for one child; it is equally befitting for others too.
U.S. National
Higher education not a luxury item | Education is not a luxury good like a new car. Education is a public good.
U.S. States
Let’s establish a cradle-to-career education policy | Shortcomings in the state’s education systems are a major contributor to California’s increasingly stratified society, with people of color experiencing the greatest negative impacts.
Californians Want to Make Community College Free | A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California finds that 53 percent of Golden State adults believe that tuition-free community college should be a priority for the next governor.
Georgia denies migrants equal access to higher education | In a guest column today, two activists urge the state of Georgia to reconsider the educational limits it places on undocumented students.
Texas Takes The Next Step To Make College More Affordable | The Affordable Baccalaureate Degree combines online study with a competency-based format, meaning that students can get credit for competencies already acquired in the workforce and/or during military service.
Georgia leaders hope to educate students on borrowing for college | The University System of Georgia is preparing a new program to make students better aware of college costs, particularly borrowing, and how much they’ll have to pay after graduation.
Institutional
These big universities put rivalries aside to raise graduation rates for low-income students | Universities compete with one another for students, funding and rankings. But colleges and universities now face a crisis of their own, rooted in changing demographics, declining state funding and soaring student debt. The imperative to do things differently is convincing some of higher education’s greatest competitors that collaboration may be their most powerful competitive advantage.
Colleges are losing sight of the true aims of higher education | When knowledge is viewed strictly as a commodity with quantifiable exchange value, goals regarding self-discovery, inhabiting new horizons beyond ourselves, and fostering social capital and community become mere footnotes to the university experience.
Posted: January 31, 2019
Note: Delayed by holiday schedule…and then Block Editor (Gutenberg update) to WordPress 5.0. Here is the most helpful article I found about the new Block Editor functionality in WordPress:
How to Disable the Block Editor (aka Gutenberg) and Use the Previous WordPress Editor | The block editor is an intriguing system, but it’s also generated a lot of criticism. As such, some people would prefer not to use it at all. That’s actually easy to do, using a dedicated plugin created by the core WordPress team (more on this later).