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This policy brief explores the educational experiences and livelihood aspirations of girls ages 15 to 24 in post-conflict northern Uganda in an effort to ascertain the structural barriers to their empowerment pathways. While girls exhibited resilience and demonstrated ambitions to pursue professional careers, start their own businesses, and lead in their communities, factors such as poverty, early pregnancy, gender norms, and poor inter-institutional coordination continue to derail the realization of their aspirations. The government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Education and Sports, has made deliberate efforts to promote girls’ education by putting in place progressive, gender-responsive, skills-oriented policies aimed…

Instructional Design Programs For Beginners And Career Changers Instructional Design programs are becoming a key pathway for professionals who want to transition into high-impact learning roles. As organizations invest more in digital training, the demand for skilled Instructional Designers continues to grow across corporate, academic, and consulting environments. Consequently, this shift is attracting teachers, HR professionals, and trainers who already understand how people learn and now want to apply those skills in more strategic, scalable ways. However, the market is crowded. From Instructional Design certificate programs online to various Instructional Design certifications, it is often difficult to assess what truly…

Dixie Denton, senior lecturer in the Department of Elementary Education, was chosen as Ball State University’s nominee for the 2026 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success. She is among 13 finalists from institutions across the conference, representing Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts. The MAC award recognizes faculty who make a meaningful impact on student success through teaching, mentorship, and engagement. Each institution nominates one faculty member whose work reflects those values. At Ball State, Ms. Denton’s decades of work in the Department of Elementary Education made her a clear choice, according to Dr. Katrina…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter A version of this essay originally appeared on “The Next 30 Years” Substack. Every few years, education seems to discover something new that will finally fix schools — a new framework, a new approach, a new way of thinking about teaching and learning. It arrives with urgency and conviction, spreads quickly, reshapes professional development and classroom practice and then fades away, either replaced by the shiny new thing or layered on top of it. Twenty-first century skills, trauma-informed pedagogy, flipped classrooms, 1:1 devices — all…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The science of reading is being taught in classrooms across Ohio, but the state’s education department stresses it will likely take time to track students’ progress. The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce is particularly interested in tracking the progress of the current kindergarten students. “This year’s kindergartners will be the first class that all four years going up to third grade, they’re going to get the science of reading,” state education department director Stephen Dackin said to the Capital Journal. “That’s a pretty good barometer…

“I’m just not a good writer.”It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned. For many students, the leap from understanding a concept to putting it on paper feels like an impossible hurdle. Writing is often treated as a final “reveal” of learning at the end of a unit — potentially a high-pressure task that can feel overwhelming for students who haven’t been given a clear roadmap.Educators are increasingly recognizing that to help students succeed, they have to move beyond simply assigning writing and start explicitly teaching it.Dr. Barrie OlsonVice President, Reading…

April 8, 2026 Special Montclair State University event will establish the President’s Carpe Futurum Fund Posted in: Donors, Press Releases Montclair State University alumni Rose Cali ’80 and Ori Eisen ’97 will be honored for their distinguished careers and commitment to serving the public good on Thursday, April 16 at the inaugural Celebrate Montclair gala, an event recognizing the excellence and impact of the University’s mission. “Rose and Ori exemplify the very best of Montclair State University,” said Montclair President Jonathan Koppell. “Rose exemplifies the spirit of community and generosity that we seek to cultivate. Ori has had a remarkable…

Free speech advocates, faculty and students criticized the decision to remove the LGBTQ+ flags from two professors’ office windows. Emma Rahmani from baseimage Two weeks after Boston University removed LGBTQ+ pride flags from the office windows of two faculty members in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, the university’s president has apologized, The Boston Globe reported. “Our university and our policies exist within a larger social context—one that is dynamic and complex,” BU president Melissa Gilliam wrote in an email to the campus community. “In the public conversation about Boston University’s time, place, and manner policies, that spotlight has…

I was doing a talk about teaching in the age of AI recently, and when I’d finished walking through the ways the AI “homework machine” had exposed and undermined our transactional system of schooling (not a wholly bad thing, IMO), an audience member raised their hand and in a semi-exasperated tone said, “But what am I supposed to teach?” It’s an excellent question. In a lot of ways, it’s the question. If you think about it, it has always been the question, though I also think we don’t always think about it enough. The core questions that govern what we…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Low and stagnant achievement and persistent racial and socioeconomic gaps in U.S. math performance have built momentum for curricular approaches similar to science of reading on the literacy front — but not all students are adequately provided an evidence-based, developmental progression toward improving their math proficiency, according to a report from Bellwether. Bellwether’s “Solving for X” report notes that the U.S. ranks lower than most peer countries on international assessments and finds consistent racial and socioeconomic gaps, and falling scores for…