When you think about vocational education, you might conjure up a picture of a mechanic or a carpenter. Historically, vocational education, rooted in learning a particular skill set,…
Exciting news hit the presses early last week—the XPrize is funding its first ed-tech competition. The goal: to handsomely reward the team that develops the best open source,…
You’re sure you could do the job, but the posting says a bachelor’s degree is required and you don’t have one. Requiring at least a bachelor’s degree is…
Every year, hundreds of Chicago Public Schools students earn decent grades, graduate from high school and then ... flounder. Many of them don't get the encouragement to enroll…
Every September, over one million newly minted high school grads load up the family car with their possessions and head to State U or a private liberal arts…
When Borders Books opened in Ann Arbor, Mich., more than 40 years ago, the company was ahead of its time. The Borders brothers had created an inventory system…
A trusted bromide in academia is that you become a better student when you become a teacher. Something like that is happening at Wikipedia. The internet encyclopedia has…