An annual study by the College Board finds counselors are poorly trained for key job duties, and are often directed to spend too much time on activities that matter least for students' academic success. Read Full Post >
Miami The annual meeting of the College Board got off to an unusual start: with a high-profile session on English-learners' "right to rigor," moderated by none other than the organization's brand-new president, David Coleman. The session, a panel discussion by three nationally known ELL experts,... Read Full Post >
A new statement attempts to establish a comprehensive and shared vision of what it means to be ready for good jobs. Read Full Post >
The two presidential candidates devote a slice of their first debate to education. Read Full Post >
A common-standards advocate argues that many aspects of American education will have to change if schooling is to fully reflect the new expectations. Read Full Post >
PARCC's K-12 and higher education leaders continued their work to and agree on performance-level descriptors for the impending Common Core State Standards assessments. Read Full Post >
Two new systems of college-and-career-readiness tests have recently announced rollouts, adding new players to a landscape dominated by the two groups of states that are designing such tests with $360 million in federal money. Read Full Post >
Amid concern that funding to promote academic disciplines beyond reading, mathematics, and science is getting squeezed out of the federal budget, more than two dozen education organizations are banding together in a new coalition to more effectively make their case to policymakers. Members of the n... Read Full Post >
Defining career readiness hasn't been discussed as much by the common standards assessment consortia as has college readiness. Read Full Post >
An organization of state directors of career and technical education has released a set of common standards in that subject. Read Full Post >
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