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Editorial by Margaret A. Miller: Strength in Numbers
I read recently that modern humans are more gracile and have slightly smaller brains than our archaic ancestors. Clearly we don’t need the muscle mass of the Neanderthals, but one argument about relative brain size is that we don’t need individual intelligence as much either, since we have to a large degree substituted social intelligence for it.
John Donne Meditation XVII
We are truly pack animals. We rely deeply on each other. We take care of each other.
In this month’s articles, the power of groups for students becomes clear in both Diego Navarro’s article about the peer networks that… Continue reading
Editorial by Margaret A. Miller: College Then and Now
The school system that worked so well for me seems to have become dysfunctional. A former teacher tells me that students in his classes come and go as their parents move in and out of jobs, making it close to impossible to develop the class’s understanding of algebra over the course of a semester. The schools still haven’t figured out how to adapt to these changing realities of students’ lives.
Continue reading: changemag.org
How Are We Defining College Readiness?
The New York City Department of Education took a bold step recently when revealing for the first time how well high schools are preparing students for higher education or well-paying careers.
According to information included in the latest school report cards, only one in four students who enter high school in New York City is ready for college after four years, and fewer than half enroll.
Apparently the city’s measure of college readiness is based largely on data from the City University of New York, but that baseline may not be pushing students… Continue reading
Advisory Committee Issues Initial Findings of Higher Education Regulations Study
In the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, Congress charged the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance with conducting a review and analysis of regulations affecting higher education to determine the extent to which regulations are overly burdensome and need to be streamlined, improved, or eliminated. The overarching finding is that the higher education community perceives the regulations under the HEA to be unnecessarily burdensome. More important, the majority view is that the specific regulations cited in the study can be improved without adverse effects on program integrity or student success.
Download the full report: www2.ed.gov
Where’s Rumpelstiltskin when you need him?
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Doing more with less means doing it differently
Sometimes finding the budget to affect change in higher education can seem as reasonable as summoning the eponymous creature in Grimm’s fairy tale. Yet that’s the job of the leaders who gathered at last week’s policy conference of the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO).Â
While not a new concept, performance funding was again top-of-mind signaling both a shift in focus from access to success and generating a fair bit of consternation about how to do more with shrinking budgets. Â Many debated whether outcomes-based funding would produce that pile of gold… Continue reading
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