While many high schoolers have myriad routes to graduation, those pathways are not all equal, and some may steer students into unexpected outcomes that limit their options early in life.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/13/21
The purpose of the tool is to help 200 countries and territories make decisions about school reopening and recovery planning.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/12/21
Parents overwhelmingly opposed going ahead with standardized testing this spring, according to a survey done by a parent advocates group.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/09/21
In terms of overall spend, the United States tops every other country in education, investing $1.3 trillion across all levels. That's more than seven times the next top contender, Germany, which spends $189.4 billion on education. However, we're only number 8 in terms of education spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/09/21
UNESCO, the United Nations agency responsible for education, and Education International, the global federation of education unions, has made a plea for schools worldwide to reopen "safely" and to keep them open "as long as possible."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/01/21
A nonprofit that promotes "open, affordable, high-quality broadband connections" has issued a roadmap for 2021, laying out what it will be pursuing in its mission of supplying internet access to an estimated 42 million unconnected people in the United States.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/26/21
The U.S. Department of Education has launched on online portal intended to show how much states have spent of their CARES Act education allocations for K-12 districts and colleges and universities.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/03/20
Even as education leaders are encouraged to look at the data to understand which pockets of students need special kinds of support for their learning, a new article and infographic from a research organization have suggested that some "subgroups" of students are too small to register on the radar, which means they get passed over.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/01/20
How much of the innovation that's taking place right now in education will still be around when the instability of the pandemic has slowed down? That's a question that the Christensen Institute has tried to understand in a new paper published today.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/20/20
10G offers the promise of delivering 10 times the current most prevalent maximum speeds offered to consumers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/19/20