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Now That the Pandemic Hit, Will Employers Keep Giving Tuition Benefits?
Large employers like Walmart and Chipotle are spending more time, money and effort investing in training programs to prepare workers for what they se…
5 years, 9 months ago
First-Year Teachers Reflect on the Pandemic
First-year teachers already face many challenges. The job is unpredictable, and for newcomers, that can be intimidating. Over the summer, EdSurge int…
5 years, 9 months ago
New Challenges for College Retention in the COVID-19 Era
On this episode we look at what colleges can do to keep students on track even during the health and economic crisis of the global pandemic. We recor…
5 years, 9 months ago
Why It’s So Hard to Lower the Cost of Textbooks
The college textbook publishing industry is offering colleges a new kind of deal: Order digital course materials in bulk at a discounted rate, then p…
5 years, 10 months ago
Longtime Educator Jamaal Bowman Is Headed to Congress. Here’s His Take on Reopening Schools
Jamaal Bowman started his career as an elementary school teacher. Then he became a high school guidance counselor and dean of students. After that, h…
5 years, 10 months ago
Should Instructors Rethink Final Exams? Some Profs Try 'Epic Finales'
When the pandemic hit, the traditional final exam just didn't seem to fit the moment for one physics professor. So she decided on a community-service…
5 years, 10 months ago
Fighting Misinformation in the Age of COVID-19
Information literacy has long been hard to teach—let’s face it, the landscape of online platforms changes so fast these days. And during this COVID-1…
5 years, 10 months ago
Do Selective Colleges Favor the Rich and Work Against the American Dream?
A new book, The Merit Myth, argues that selective colleges have become places that block social mobility, and instead “fast-track the elite to ever h…
5 years, 11 months ago
A First-Gen College Student Talks Fauxmencement, Loan Debt and Advice for Educators
Zipporah Osei is a first-generation college student who wants to fill in knowledge gaps about navigating colleges for others like her. So she started…
5 years, 11 months ago
What a Forgotten Instructional Fad From the ‘70s Reveals About Teaching
In the 1960s and '70s, an experimental form of teaching made a big splash at colleges. It was called PSI, or the Personalized System of Instruction. …
5 years, 11 months ago