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Colleges honor education majors with pinning ceremonies

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Savannah O’Connor, a junior in Rowan University’s College of Education, doesn’t have much free time. She balances her regular classwork with weekly classroom observations, all while studying for the challenging Praxis Subject Tests, which she must pass to become a certified teacher.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

ATSU is also creating a Grow Your Own faculty development program that offers a low-to-no-cost education designed to support students interested in academic medicine. ATSU is also creating a Grow Your Own faculty development program that offers a low-to-no-cost education designed to support students interested in academic medicine.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. Dr. Erik M.

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We Need to Infuse Civic and Public Purpose Into a College Education

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Civics education is all the rage. A recent Newsweek headline sums up the widespread view: “ When We Fail to Teach Our Kids the Basics About Civics, We Risk Losing Our Democracy. ” Support for civics education cuts across the political spectrum. What does civics education entail?

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently? Why would faculty who were disciplinary specialists trained at elite graduate schools and well published in their fields forsake scholarship?

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Coursera is Evolving into a Third-Wave EdTech Company

eLiterate

Having watched the rise of the MOOCs closely and having watched 2U/EdX chase EdX’s inspiration and rival, I assumed I understood 2U as well. Coursera is evolving into a different and much more interesting company that is well-positioned to take advantage of the tectonic shifts I’m tracking. I was wrong. Coursera as a marketplace.

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

Principle 2: An education that is skills and outcomes focused—that does much more to ensure that students become better communicators and can apply critical thinking, close reading and numerical skills in real-world contexts. None of these ideas is original.