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Grading Personal Responsibility
Community college in N.C. plans to evaluate "soft skills" and issue workplace readiness certificates for students who get passing marks.
Headline-Driven Accreditation
With actions involving U.Va., North Carolina and Florida A&M, among others, Southern agency responds to spate of high-profile controversies and calamities.
Pushing Back on 'Granularity'
A major regional accreditor raises questions about whether the Education Department's methods of evaluating such agencies are truly helpful.
Digital Badging for Veterans
New website creates digital badges for veterans, aiming to recognize military skills and training. Will it be the first badging experiment to catch on?
More Cracks in the Credit Hour
The Carnegie Foundation, which created the credit hour, considers a redesign so the standard could better fit with emerging approaches to higher education.
Scrambling to Understand Veterans
Colleges aren't doing a good job of tracking how current and former military service members are faring on their campuses, a new survey finds, but that may be changing.
Opinion
Grades and Assessing Learning: Can't We Get Along?
Given how busy professors are, it makes sense to link outcomes assessment to grading, rather than create redundancy by piling the latter on top of the former, Mark Salisbury writes.
Opinion
A Better Way to Prepare Teachers
Rep. Michael Honda and Sen. Jack Reed argue that schools and colleges need to work together to ensure that school leaders, and especially instructors, are ready for the classroom.