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Higher Ed's Next Reform Push: 'Demand-Driven Education'
A new report from Pearson, the education technology company, and Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit group, argues that postsecondary...
Analysis of Performance Funding Scenarios in Calif.
California's move toward performance funding for its community colleges could work without harming colleges that enroll large numbers of underserved...
Chain Adds Employee Education Benefits
First Watch Restaurants Inc., a Florida-based breakfast chain, has joined a growing number of companies offering employee education benefits. First...
MIT Trials First U.S. ‘Read and Publish’ Agreement
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries system has signed a publishing agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry, thought to...
Immigration and Higher Education
Foreign-born students have additional challenges at academic institutions. In today's Academic Minute, Goodwin College's Lisa Wisniewski discusses the Polish immigrant...
Free MOOCs Face the Music
In its quest to find a sustainable business model, online course provider edX will test charging users for access to previously free content. Observers say the move was inevitable.
Backlash and Boycott Over Exclusionary Conference
Anger grows over major scholarly meeting in Asian studies, organized by group based in U.S., that will hold conference in India even though Pakistanis will be banned from attending.
Dividing World History
Another AP history exam comes under scrutiny, with critics saying a proposed rewrite of the AP World History exam, focusing on events after 1450, is too Eurocentric.