New Leader at Carnegie
Stanford’s Tony Bryk, a member of Education Sector’s research advisory committee, was recently appointed the new President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Many people don’t...
View ArticleThe Curious Birth of the Credit Hour
As anyone who has ever attended college probably realizes, the currency of degrees and credentials are credit hours. But few people know where the credit hour comes from. Today the New America...
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Identifying potential dropouts in middle school. A Louisiana school is seeing reduced suspension and failure rates, plus a higher attendance rate, thanks to—officials say—a data-driven program that...
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How to measure learning. New America Foundation’s Amy Laitinen writes about the “curious birth and harmful legacy of the credit hour.” Education Sector earlier co-released a paper with Laitinen that...
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Statistic of the day. Nearly 90 percent of Americans say students should receive college credit for work experience and other skills learned outside of the classroom. An Education Sector-New America...
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