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To Get More Students Through College, Give Them Fewer Choices

A new book recommends simplifying community college pathways to help more students graduate.

Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success by Thomas R. Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins

To Get More Students Through College, Give Them Fewer Choices

A new book recommends simplifying community college pathways to help more students graduate.

The accuracy of self-reporting depends on your frame of reference. Excerpted from "Measurement Matters: Assessing Personal Qualities Other Than Cognitive Ability for Educational Purposes."

A Key Researcher Says 'Grit' Isn't Ready For High-Stakes Measures

Angela Duckworth worries that when it comes to measuring students' resilience, education policy may be getting ahead of science.

University of North Carolina system President Tom Ross and UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt talk during a special joint meeting of the UNC Board of Governors and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees on Wednesday.

Report Says UNC Grade-Boosting Scandal Involved Fake Classes

An independent investigation found that the school's Afro and Afro-American Studies Department used the "paper classes" to inflate grades for more than 3,000 students, nearly half of them athletes.

City Heights Nonprofit Reality Changers Launches New Campaign

The nonprofit that was founded in 2001 launched its "Give to the Future" campaign on Wednesday, and hopes to send 1,000 children to college at the end of this school year.

Standards, Grades And Tests Are Wildly Outdated, Argues 'End Of Average'

A Harvard faculty member argues in his new book that averages tell us nothing useful about individuals. That has big implications for schools.

Standards, Grades And Tests Are Wildly Outdated, Argues 'End Of Average'

A Harvard faculty member argues in his new book that averages tell us nothing useful about individuals. That has big implications for schools.

Let's Stop Requiring Advanced Math, A New Book Argues

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus keep millions of people from graduating. And they're unnecessary, argues author and professor Andrew Hacker.

Let's Stop Requiring Advanced Math, A New Book Argues

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus keep millions of people from graduating. And they're unnecessary, argues author and professor Andrew Hacker.

Without Birmingham's Dropout Recovery Program, James Hanks says, he'd likely be "sitting at home doing nothing, or in the streets getting into trouble."

On Track To A 90 Percent Graduation Rate In Alabama

Computer-based instruction for dropouts is key to the state's high school strategy.

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