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Wherever we are, we’d all like to think our classrooms are ‘intellectually active’ places. Progressive learning environments. Highly effective and conducive to student-centered learning.The reality is, there is no single answer because teaching and learning are awkward to consider as single events or individual ‘things.’So we put together one take on the characteristics of a highly effective classroom through the idea of conditions. They can act as a kind of criteria to measure your own against–see if you notice a pattern.Read more below. Framework A Conditions-Based Model for Highly Effective Learning Environments A research-informed template for diagnosing learning environments and…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / Erin Lanae’s HBCU Excellence Scholarship 2026 (Deadline: March 15, 2026) December 15, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Getting accepted into a college or university is an incredible accomplishment that should be the start of a successful academic career. Unfortunately, this exciting time is often tinged with stress and anxiety as students wonder how they’ll pay for school. Even students with exceptional qualifications and amazing grades may be offered little to no aid from their college, leaving them in a difficult financial situation that can be discouraging. This scholarship seeks…

A limited number of short-term job training programs may be able to access the Pell Grant starting July 1, 2026 if they pass the regulatory guardrails established under proposed regulations signed off on Friday by the Department of Education and its advisory rule-making committee. The department will next post the draft regulations on the Federal Register and take public comment. After that, officials will have to review and respond to the public comments before finalizing the rule. Once that happens, governors can start the process and approve certain in-demand certification programs for Workforce Pell.  When Education Under Secretary Nicholas Kent took…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Cleveland Metropolitan School Board on Dec. 9 approved the district’s recommendation to close or merge 29 of its 88 schools by the 2026-27 school year.  Student enrollment has dropped by about 50% over the past two decades, from 70,000 in 2004 to 34,000 in 2025, according to the district. In addition, many of its school buildings need repairs.  The closures and resulting consolidation of Cleveland schools is expected to save the district about $30 million annually. Still, the district…

J.D. Tuccille, Reason Americans worry that the country is becoming less friendly to free expression. But the equating of words and violence doesn’t help.

This year was my first visit to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) conference since 2022. I went every year from 2015 to 2022, so I had a pretty good sense of what it had typically been like. The tonal shift this year was striking. Middle States is the formerly regional accreditor that covers most colleges and universities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. It has an annual conference in December, typically in Philadelphia, at which the formal focus is on updating and preparing institutions for self-studies and the informal focus…

Transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) young people whose pronouns are respected are far less likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year, according to new research from The Trevor Project. The nonprofit, which provides crisis support services, research and advocacy for LGBTQ+ young people, found that 11 percent of TGNB youth who said their pronouns are respected reported a suicide attempt, compared to 17 percent of those who said their pronouns were not respected. The data comes from the nonprofit’s 2024 national survey on the mental health of LGBTQ+ young people, which included responses from more than 12,000 TGNB youth ages…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education has recognized Grand Canyon University as a nonprofit, marking the end of a lengthy and contentious dispute between the institution and the federal government that began in 2019.  Previously designated as a for-profit, Grand Canyon University split off from the publicly traded corporation Grand Canyon Education in 2018. The next year, the Education Department said it would continue treating the university as a for-profit given its deep financial relationship with GCE. In a press release…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Angela Watkins never planned to launch a school on her own. But after 18 years of teaching in public schools, she wanted to do more for her “gifted, twice-exceptional and underserved students.” So in 2024, she helped found a microschool in Mereaux, Louisiana, a small town not far from New Orleans.   Although she had a doctorate in educational leadership and extensive teaching experience, she quickly discovered that passion and pedagogical expertise were necessary but insufficient ingredients of her new school vision. As it turns out,…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / Jessica’s Journey Brain Tumor Survivor Scholarship 2026 (Deadline: April 11, 2026) December 15, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Brain tumors are one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer and can be a difficult diagnosis to overcome. Survivors have often gone through a lot of pain, worry, and stress and often come out the other side full of perseverance and resilience. These qualities can allow cancer survivors to achieve greatness in their lives, giving them great motivation when it comes to pursuing educational or professional goals. This scholarship seeks…