Newmark's Door

"Getting better: How Louisiana is raising reading and math scores"

And Mississippi.

See also "How one state is getting education RIGHT — by going back to basics".

"Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college."

An "X" (formerly Twitter) thread.

"In a word: Harvard."

Come back in 30 or 40 years and see if still holds.

"CSU, reeling from budget cuts to classes and faculty, decry more proposed state reductions"

Supposedly CSU (the Cal State University system) is not being picked on: Governor Newsom's proposed 2025-26 budget has a 7.95% cut in funding across the entire budget. 

Well, it's a start.

 

"How college AP and IB policies make it harder to graduate early"

"The data reveals that many institutions of higher education are purposefully limiting the use of AP and IB credit towards a degree (or banning it for credit completely). This results in students (on average) having to pay more in tuition and fees."

"Wake County teen graduates from NC State in one year, advocates for dual enrollment benefits"

Long time readers might recall I've long advocated for taking a year out of high school and/or college for many students at least. Wake County's "dual enrollment" program seems to accomplish much of what I want.

Some details on the program.

"The Re-Skilling of America"

I think I can get behind this: "Instead of subsidizing America’s greedy and unequal diploma mills, how about dropping degree requirements and rewarding skills?"

"No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort"

"High marks are for excellence, not grit."

Or as I used to tell my students: the world tends strongly to reward results not effort. (At least private, profit-seeking employers do.)

"How the rise of woke ‘educrats’ is destroying higher education"

The growth of administrators in higher education truly is something to behold.

"The Teachers' Unions Are Losing"

There's a long way to go, but John Hinderaker argues a good start has been made.

"CampusReel"

For a long time, I've not understood the purpose of short campus visits by high school seniors to help them choose which college to go to. What do they expect to find out that they can't find out, much more cheaply, elsewhere? And that's especially true in our age of the Net. CampusReel provides videos of attendees discussing various aspects of the college they go to. Here's the page for my alma mater, George Washington Univ.