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The White House is on a mission to defund minority-serving institutions, places that have provided economic mobility and workforce training for millions of students—low-income, minoritized or both—for decades. The president’s budget request, released Friday, proposes cutting $354 million in MSI funding from the Education Department. MSIs were nowhere to be found in the department’s latest application for grant programs serving low-resourced institutions. To dispel any doubt about the president’s intentions, MSIs were among nearly a dozen programs on Trump’s “Cuts to Woke Programs Fact Sheet” that were zeroed out in the name of “eliminating radical gender and racial ideologies that poison…

Joseph G. Altonji & Zhengren Zhu, PEER Center This piece was featured in The Washington Post and Inside Higher Ed , among other sources.

How To Design Truly Interactive Learning If you’ve worked in L&D for more than five minutes, you’ve probably heard this request: “Can we make it more interactive?” Which sounds great in theory. Until you realize what people usually mean is: Add a few click-to-reveals. Throw in some hotspots. Maybe a drag-and-drop if we’re feeling ambitious. End with a quiz and call it a day. And just like that—interactive learning achieved! Except… not really. Because if we’re being honest (and let’s be honest), a lot of what we label as “interactive” in eLearning is really just reactive. Click. Reveal. Next. That’s…

More than a cen­tu­ry after women’s suf­frage in the Unit­ed States, it’s not enough to bone up on the plat­forms of female pri­ma­ry can­di­dates (though that’s an excel­lent start). A Twit­ter user and self-described Old Crone named Robyn urged her fel­low Amer­i­cans to take a good long gan­der at a list of nine free­doms that women in the Unit­ed States were not uni­ver­sal­ly grant­ed in 1971, the year Helen Red­dy released the soon-to-be anthem, “I Am Woman,” above. Even those of us who remem­ber singing along as chil­dren may expe­ri­ence some shock that these facts check out on Snopes. CREDIT CARDS: Pri­or…

Iowa lawmakers created the center last year. Joe Hendrickson/Getty Images The Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa hosted an opening event last December—but only invited Republicans, The Gazette in Cedar Rapids reported Sunday.  The independent center was created last year by an act of the Iowa Legislature to “educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth,” among other goals. Lawmakers also appropriated $1 million to help pay for some of the costs of opening the center, including an interim director, temporary faculty and lecturers, administrative support, a market study, and…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter For a small school district, recruiting and retaining educators is a never-ending challenge, especially when competing against large districts with broader revenue bases and better salaries. It’s simple economics — when pay increases, the talent follows. This feeling of frustration is one that leaders at New York’s Clyde-Savannah Central School District know well. Situated between Rochester and Syracuse, this rural district of 750 students is often seen as a stepping stone by educators. Many new teachers get a few years under their belt, then take…

Behavioral health programs may be especially compatible with earn-and-learn strategies as the federal government and some individual states adopt stricter, measured-value accountability frameworks. Photo illustration by Inside Higher Ed | SDI Productions/E+/Getty Images The country’s only nonprofit accredited university dedicated to apprenticeship degrees is opening a health-care college, it announced Thursday. Reach University, which launched in 2020, has thus far been focused on education, helping incumbent workers in K–12 schools earn degrees to become teachers while they continue to work full-time, typically as paraeducators. Just as Reach’s debt-free teacher apprenticeship model is designed to address a critical shortage of educators,…

Key points: While nearly every industry is racing to integrate artificial intelligence, most schools are still teaching high school math the way it’s been done for decades–rooted in instructional material that is abstract, disconnected, and detached from the world students actually live in. It’s no wonder that so many students decide early on that math “isn’t for them.” The way we’ve structured math instruction makes it hard for them to see why it matters. Our standards were built for a university pipeline, not for the realities of a dynamic economy that values creativity, problem-solving, and the ability to ask the…

Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A West Virginia law signed April 1 lets school districts design academic calendars around instructional hours rather than days, giving them flexibility to move to a four-day school week.  On the other hand, in Louisiana, lawmakers are contemplating a bill that would mandate a five-day school week for districts, with exceptions for those with the highest performance level and those operating on a four-day schedule before the end of last year.  And in Texas’ Liberty Hill Independent School District, the board of…

Frank Bruni, NYT It’s sweetly customary for college students filing out of a seminar room or lecture hall to thank the professor who has just finished jabbering at them, as if all that verbiage…