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It”s June. Your principal stops you in the hallway and asks a simple question: “So what impact did coaching have this year?” You know the answer. You lived it — the planning sessions, the classroom visits, the hard conversations that led to real changes. But when you open your mouth, all you’ve got are stories. No surveys. No data. No documented feedback from teachers or students. Just a feeling that it mattered. That’s not good enough. Not for your admin, not for your program, and honestly — not for you. The good news? It’s April, not June. You still have…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Most clicked story of the week: Colleges cutting vast numbers of their academic programs make headlines often, but are officials choosing the right metrics to assess their offerings? Our latest feature looks into the messy math of evaluating programs, and why some experts caution against cutting based solely on figures like enrollment.  Number of the week: 30 The number of days of written notice faculty at public colleges would receive before being terminated under a Kentucky bill aiming to make it easier…

Higher education is facing a defining moment. Rapid technological change, shifting public expectations and growing skepticism about value are forcing institutions to rethink not just what they teach, but how they prepare students to navigate an increasingly complex world. Standing still is no longer an option. At Elon University, the 2025 President’s Report explores how colleges and universities can respond with clarity and purpose by focusing on what today’s students need to think critically, adapt and lead responsibly. Central to this work is a simple but powerful idea: preparing students not just with knowledge, but with the ability to question,…

Key points: School leaders everywhere are working to implement change–new initiatives, new instructional frameworks, new technologies, new approaches to student support. Yet one of the most common frustrations educators express is not necessarily with the changes themselves, but with how those changes happen. Too often, initiatives are designed far from the classroom and introduced to teachers as something to adopt, implement, or comply with. The result is predictable: Enthusiasm fades, implementation varies widely, and the initiative quietly disappears when the next new idea arrives. But sustainable change works differently. Sustainable change happens when educators feel they have a genuine voice…

Careers like the skilled trades and shipbuilding were listed in both grant competitions as high-demand fields students could pursue through work-based learning. Inside Higher Ed | monkeybusinessimages/iStock/Getty Images Grant competitions for two TRIO programs include new priorities related to workforce development pathways, despite the programs’ statutory requirements to help first-generation learners access higher education. The shift, which comes after TRIO—a group of federal college-access programs—moved to the Department of Labor, have rung alarm bells for advocates. The Trump administration also is planning to reduce how many grants it awards via TRIO, according to the first two competitions. More than 800,000…

Nursing student Effua Jordan wasn’t expecting car trouble on her way to clinicals, but a breakdown left her facing a nearly $500 bill. She asked family for help and put the rest on her credit card, scrambling to cover the unexpected expense. While her car was being repaired, the fourth-year student at the University of Texas at Arlington had to rely on rideshares to reach her clinical rotations—often about an hour’s ride from campus—which affected not only how she showed up for patients but also how she participated in class. “It just bled into other areas,” Jordan said. “Whenever I…

Students have helped place heat and flood sensors around the city as part of the partnership. Kimberly Reeves/Agnes Scott College Since 2022, students from Agnes Scott College have helped place 36 heat sensors across their campus and surrounding Decatur, Ga., in an effort to help researchers analyze and mitigate the risks of extreme heat waves in the area. But the project—one of several initiatives of the joint Climate Resilience Plan partnership between Agnes Scott and Decatur—also demonstrates the power of town-gown collaboration in addressing climate change, an area of mounting concern to institutions and their constituents. “You can only be…

Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic Economists have a new theory of why graduates of top colleges have so much career success.

Each semester, students face significant challenges in their courses. Students either get discouraged, fall behind, or consider dropping the class (Trusty et al., 2025). Educators spend a considerable amount of time and creative energy encouraging these students to not give up and stay on top of class assignments (Blanco et al., 2025; Faucett, 2025). Oftentimes, students struggle not because they lack ability, but because academic challenges are intertwined with financial pressures, personal and emotional challenges, and poor study habits (Blanco et al., 2025; Trusty et al., 2025). In addition, a student’s challenges feel immediate, while their future goals feel abstract (Niewoudt & Pedler, 2023). The COPE Method is designed to help the struggling student cope with their immediate academic challenges, and see them as stepping stones paving the way to the future they want.  …

by Elizabeth Davis, The Hechinger Report April 6, 2026 As a mom of a child with special needs, I often spend the majority of my day filing insurance forms for reimbursement. I can spend hours on the phone trying to find out why coverage was denied for my child’s therapy. Usually, it is due to an error, but there are other times when we are required to jump through hoops.  I have been told that if my child is not demonstrating sufficient growth, coverage of her treatment will stop, even though there is research-based evidence that therapy is the only…