Creating Educational Spaces Full of Joy and Justice
Juliana Urtubey, the 2021 National Teacher of the Year recipient, knows firsthand the importance of valuing all parts of a student’s identity. As a first generation, bilingual immigrant, Urtubey bring...
23 Mars 202223min
What it Takes to Be a Great University
Harvard Professor Dick Light has visited 260 college campuses talking to administrators, faculty, and students to figure out what sets a great university apart from an okay one. It turns out there are...
16 Mars 202230min
Will Teachers Stay or Will They Go?
Since the start of the pandemic, education has grappled with a looming threat of teacher shortages and a mass exodus of teachers. Elizabeth Steiner, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, has re...
9 Mars 202215min
Is the College Enrollment Decline Really a Crisis?
For the past decade, college enrollments have steadily been on the decline. The pandemic appears to have accelerated such drops with reports of more than a million fewer students attending college tod...
2 Mars 202222min
What is Happening with Critical Race Theory in Education?
When Gloria Ladson-Billings set out in the 1990s to adapt critical race theory from law to education, she couldn’t have predicted that it would become the focus of heated school debates today.In recen...
23 Feb 202224min
How Remote Learning Negatively Affected Children and Why it Matters
Before the pandemic hit, Harvard Professor Stephanie Jones and Lecturer Emily Hanno were already tracking young children's development as part of the Early Learning Study at Harvard. As the pandemic b...
16 Feb 202221min
How to Be a Social Justice Parent and Raise Compassionate Kids
Many parents want to raise kind and compassionate children, but in today's world it can be difficult to figure out how. Traci Baxley, an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, is a mother...
15 Dec 202119min
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased
What is driving an increase in college completion rates? It's not student characteristics or higher student enrollments, says Jeff Denning, an associate professor at Brigham Young University. Denning,...
8 Dec 202110min
