Richard Ingersoll attributes some of the growth in the teaching force to increased hiring of special education teachers, teachers of English language learners, and math and science teachers.
Joni Finney explains the growing trend in statewide initiatives for free community college and some positive results of Promise programs enacted in Tennessee.
Alan Ruby writes about the importance of investing in not only physical infrastructure, but also in human capital in order to maximize the success of China’s Belt and Rod initiative.
Alan Ruby and Matthew Hartley write about a panel’s selection of 20 higher education institutions in India that can compete with the best institutions worldwide.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Online | March 28, 2018
Marybeth Gasman comments on the new report by the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions that explores the lack of women in presidential positions at Minority Serving Institutions.
Marybeth Gasman discusses the HSI Pathways to the Professoriate program which seeks to increase the number of Latinx professors throughout the country.
Manuel S. González Canché writes about colleges and universities with need-blind admissions practices and the need for highly selective education institutions to redefine “merit.”
Richard Ingersoll explains the reason why teachers of color leave the teaching force at a higher rate than White teachers and how to address this issue.
Howard Stevenson delivered the keynote address at the African American Museum of Philadelphia on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, reflecting on “the emotional costs of activism and being on the front lines.”
Richard Ingersoll’s findings—that students perform better on state tests when teachers have a leadership role in decision making in their school—are cited in this article that explores hybrid roles for teachers as leaders of other teachers.
Joni Finney discusses the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (Prosper) Act, saying it could result in “many scams that will take advantage of students and the federal aid dollars of the federal government.”Marsha Richardson shares how to be mindful and be emotionally healthy.
Jonathan Zimmerman suggests that across the political spectrum, Americans are distrusting college and universities; he offers three suggestions for improvement.
Matthew Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe’s new study on the academic and behavioral consequences of discipline policy reform is discussed in this opinion piece.
ACM News (Association for Computing Machinery) | December 18, 2017
Ryan Baker discusses how AI-based tutoring systems are allowing the majority of students to proceed at their own pace, while freeing up teachers to work with individual students.
Richard Ingersoll attributes some of the growth in the teaching force to increased hiring of special education teachers, teachers of English language learners, and math and science teachers.
