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Can youth sports foster creativity? It depends
Youth sports are viewed as a rite of passage in a child’s development.
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Call for proposals: Diversity Outreach and Support for NAFSA 2015 in Boston, MA
Submissions for the poster fair category “Increasing Diversity Outreach and Support for Education Abroad” at the 2015 NAFSA Annual Conference in Boston, MA are now open. The deadline to submit proposals for the […]
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US student body grows ever more international, but inequality persists
Through its higher education system, the US student population is slowly shedding an unfortunate image it may have once had of being rather parochial.
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The liberal arts in neoliberal times
In the neoliberal epoch the humanities have undergone a radical transformation.
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University rankings: past, present, future
College and university rankings have been in the news recently, both in the United States and around the world as the Times Higher Education (THE) released their World University Rankings for 2014-2015 on October 2nd.
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Badass teachers and the future of American democracy
Education should be a transformative experience. Instead, it’s being converted into a commodity that can be quantified, bought and sold.
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A conversation with Eric Schwarz about the evolution of citizen schools
I had a recent conversation with Eric Schwarz about the evolution of Citizen Schools. Eric is the founder of Citizen Schools and author of The Opportunity Equation: How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools.
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Postgraduates – public good or job qualification?
An international study of postgraduate education has produced evidence of considerable challenges over a range of countries, from emerging economies to the most developed in North America and Europe.
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Consequences of privatization
In response to our recent post on Sweden, Henry Levin shared “Evaluating Consequences of Educational Privatization: Ideas and consequences of market principles in education,” a power point presentation from a lecture that he gave at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, in March of 2013.
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New OECD report leads to questions about educational innovation
While the OECD has released a number of reports this year, their most recent report addresses the measurement of educational innovation at the classroom and school levels.
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