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The government is accused of shelving a new measure of school accountability in England before it is introduced. read more >>> Source : BBC

THE proportion of students from the most deprived communities securing a place at a Scottish university has remained virtually static, new figures show. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com

How do you escape? Many people would say they’d mostly curl up with a good book, and so do we. Books are a way of getting away and seeing things from a new perspective no matter where you are, even more so if you don’t have the opportunity to do so otherwise. This is the […]

If I had grown up under different circumstance, would I still have ended up with a degree, career, and a life with relatively no struggle? Frankly, I think it’s unlikely. I had every advantage in the world as a child. A stable family, including a stay-at home mom who catered to my every need, and […]

Are there really more black males in prison than in universities? read more >>> Source : BBC

This fall, an estimated 20.2 million students are attending American colleges and universities. Whether at two- or four-year institutions, the first step to fulfilling the American Dream is earning a degree that will provide a foot in the door to an amazing career, higher earnings and social capital. But year after year, that dream seems […]

RECORD numbers of applications have been received by Scottish universities, new figures show. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com

Labour is calling for England’s school curriculum to be based on the needs of a modern economy, rather than the political “pet projects” of ministers. read more >>> Source : BBC

SÃO PAULO — Approximately 5 percent of Brazilians have some kind of hearing impairment. Despite the widespread implementation of Brazilian Sign Language, also called Libras, in 2005, people with hearing impairments often need the help of translators to read texts, textbooks, websites and other reading material in standard Portuguese, which uses a different grammatical structure. […]

As a fellow social studies teacher educator who is committed to the revitalization of urban schools, I share Alan Singer’s concerns. It is essential that urban schools improve, and to do so, they need high-quality teachers. Like Singer, I believe that new teacher education programs should be “introduced through thoughtful discussion and decisions should be […]

Editor’s Note: This is a joint article by Acting Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. and Shaun Donovan, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, that first appeared on LinkedIn. Today’s good-paying jobs increasingly require a high-quality post-secondary degree or credential. That’s why the Obama Administration has made historic investments in student financial […]

Entrepreneurs and college have had an “it’s complicated” relationship for quite some time. In fact, the entrepreneur who’s famous for making that phrase famous, was a college drop out. College drop-outs becoming entrepreneurial successes is a pretty common story. And for good reason. A list of recent companies whose founders dropped out of college is […]

The news last year of the closure of Sweet Briar College — a 114-year-old all-women’s liberal arts college in Virginia — sent shock waves through the world of academia. Even more shockingly, the school didn’t end up closing. This month it also reported a record number of applications for the next academic year, according to […]

Students at a high school in Howard County, Maryland, were tired of administrators ignoring their concerns about racist language being used in their school. So they decided to organize a protest and lifted their voices. On Tuesday, students at Mount Hebron High School, which had a 49.8 percent white population last year, walked out before […]

THE head of one of Scotland’s most prestigious universities has attacked new laws on the way institutions are run as “inconsistent” and “incoherent”. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com

While people may call the O.J. Simpson case “the trial of the century,” one of his lawyers doesn’t think it ranks as one of the most important cases of the 20th century. “It was a highly publicized trial that established no real important legal principles,” his former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, told Business Insider. As an […]

For the last several years, I have taught at the school of management at a faith-based institution, where I help students learn to be business leaders through studying the humanities. What I have learned is that students with little or no religious background were drawn to the mission of Catholic colleges, because the university and […]

Payments on student loans won’t just affect how long it will take to save a down payment. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com

Jared Fox, 28, knows first-hand about the perils of intolerance. Just two years ago, when Fox was visiting his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, from New York, he was brutally attacked by a group of teenagers. They beat him, stole his belongings and called him anti-gay slurs. He suffered bruises all over his body. Only a […]

Applicants who are offered scholarships should find out if they can be renewed, says one expert. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com

UNIVERSITY chiefs have come under fire after urging tutors to leak private information about students who have confided in them over money or debt problems. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com

UNIVERSITY chiefs have come under fire after urging tutors to leak private information about students who have confided in them over money or debt problems. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com

This video is inspired by Bell Let’s Talk! Bell Let’s Talk is a wide-reaching, multi-year program designed to break the silence around mental illness and support mental health all across Canada. Did you know that 1 in 5 Canadians suffers from mental illness? When it comes to health and wellness, most people tend to focus […]

UNIVERSITY chiefs have come under fire after urging tutors to leak private information about students who have confided in them over money or debt problems. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com

Detroit Public Schools (DPS) emergency manager Darnell Earley announced he will step down at the end of February, The Detroit Free Press reported. Earley’s resignation follows a tumultuous month at Detroit schools. The Detroit Federation of Teachers struck out at DPS with a lawsuit filed last week claiming the district allowed schools to deteriorate “to […]

PARIS — Days after terrorists attacked French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store last January, the country called for a moment of silence in schools. Most students complied, standing to honor the victims. But hundreds openly rebelled. Some students understandably said they were offended by the magazine’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, […]

In 2009, 27-year-old behavioral scientist Adam Grant became an associate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Within two years, he became the youngest professor to receive tenure at the school; within five years, he became the school’s youngest full professor with around 60 peer-reviewed research papers under his belt. Now, at […]

In Joplin, Missouri, a community where everything has been lost in the prism of May 22, 2011, sometimes it is easy to overlook basic truths. It is also easy to overlook basic humanity. Such has been the case with the continuing controversy surrounding the request by Zach Williams’ mother to have a chair draped with […]

Thursday Student Voice convened a group of students from around the city of Philadelphia in a Student Voice Convention to launch a national tour. We didn’t choose the city by accident–Philadelphia was the birthplace of our nation. It was here, 227 years ago that another convention created an American government for the people and by […]

The BBC’s diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall, is leaving the corporation to become the first female master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. read more >>> Source : BBC

As the Interwebs fill with theories regarding why Donald Trump did not pull off a predicted win in Iowa (from his vulgar blustering finally catching up with him to his falling prey to a conspiracy of “Establishment Republicans” and the “Liberal Media”), I’d like to propose a far more fundamental reason for his defeat, one […]

International students who cannot afford college application fees may be able to apply for a waiver. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com

Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts tops the list, charging $40 per credit, U.S. News data show. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com

Today, for the very first time, we’re thrilled to welcome you to HuffPost Queer Voices. Our name change comes four-and-a-half years after we originally debuted as HuffPost Gay Voices — and after countless conversations with countless people, both inside and outside of the HuffPost newsroom. Though I’ve had my own love affair with the word […]

A County Antrim primary school sent a moving letter to children who received their transfer test results on Saturday. read more >>> Source : BBC

Would-be students at Cambridge University will have to sit written tests as part of the application process, the university’s admissions director announces. read more >>> Source : BBC

A UK school is the first to sign up for an official anti-doping “clean sport” status read more >>> Source : BBC

A LEADING charity has attacked new tests for Scottish primary and secondary pupils calling them “inappropriate” and “detrimental”. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com

When Jacob Rooksby speaks at education conferences about student privacy rights, he starts off with a couple questions for the audience. “I start with, ‘True or false: If you make the wrong FERPA call, you can be personally sued’?” said Rooksby, referring to the federal privacy law known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy […]

Harvard alumnus Ron Unz — ex-publisher of The American Conservative — has aligned himself with a liberal-sounding cause: He wants his alma mater to stop charging tuition. Unz is running with four other alums for a spot on the Harvard University Board of Overseers on a ticket to eliminate undergraduate tuition, The Harvard Crimson reported. […]

Eleven-year-old Marley Dias from New Jersey was tired of being instructed to read books about “white boys and their dogs.” With the help of her mother and the grassROOTS Community Foundation, Dias launched a book drive called #1000BlackGirlBooks. The drive seeks to collect 1,000 books that feature a black female main character, and plans on […]

Locks, keys, vaults: these images are omnipresent as the nation recognizes Data Privacy Day. Protecting the privacy of our children’s personal information is absolutely essential. But as we consider this crucial issue, let’s do so in the broader context of how data is unlocking richer, more robust information to inform decisionmaking, personalize learning and help […]

High school classmates of David Eisenhauer — a Virginia Tech freshman charged Saturday with killing a 13-year-old girl — are reportedly in disbelief that he could be responsible for her death. “All of my friends that knew him, that graduated with him, as well as everyone on the team, we’re just in total shock about […]

In 2002, I saw “music therapy” pop up in my Google search results for “careers in music,” and thought ~WOW, I’ll do that! My parents aren’t gonna like that at ALL! Here I am 14 years after that spark of rebellion, and to say that my parents wouldn’t have approved was a bit unfair. They […]

For 15 years, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) increasingly cast a pall over American public schools. Its punitive, rigid and misconceived accountability system left millions of disadvantaged students behind. Thankfully in December, Congress replaced NCLB. “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA) breaks NCLB’s link between tests and sanctions. ESSA returns broad authority to States and localities/school […]