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Shaping Success: The Ongoing Rise of Dual Enrollment

October 25, 2023

Dual Enrollment partnerships between high schools and colleges that allow high school students to earn college credit for courses they take are known as dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, dual credit, and…

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Public School Learning Outcomes – Three Systems With Different Results

October 11, 2023

I recently wrote about establishing and measuring learning outcomes in K-12 education. Less than three weeks later, NY Times reporter Sarah Mervosh’s article described how the best public schools may…

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AI Education Frameworks – Australia vs. U.S.

October 10, 2023

I recently read an article published in the Guardian about Australia’s education ministers formally backing a national framework that will guide the use of AI in public schools. Australia’s federal…

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Will This “Solution” Eliminate Financial Barriers to a Bachelor’s Degree?

October 6, 2023

I received a copy of the Higher Education newsletter this week. Published by The Hechinger Report, the newsletter is distributed weekly. The headline article reported about the University of Central…

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More Pell Students at Ivy League Institutions?

October 2, 2023

Photo by PhotoSpirit – stock.adobe.com The campaign continues to convince Ivy League and other elite universities to eliminate legacy admissions and admit more lower income students after the Supreme Court…

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Great Teachers Are Indescribable

September 25, 2023

After more than six decades, I close my eyes and think about the truly great teachers I experienced along my educational journey. My elementary school teachers were generalists, required to…

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How Are K-12 Learning Outcomes Established and Measured?

September 21, 2023

A simple question from a friend and colleague about how independent school K-12 learning outcomes are established and measured led me down a road less traveled. I am very familiar…

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Knowledge Workers and AI – Implications of a Study

September 18, 2023

A blog post from Wharton Interactive’s Faculty Director Ethan Mollick provided me with the heads up about an AI study with potential implications to the Future of Work. Mollick wrote…

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Free Educational Resources

September 1, 2023

For years, college students have complained about the cost of textbooks and course materials. At American Public University System, the institution where I served as president until August 2020, our…

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Admissions and Financial Aid Practices at Community Colleges

August 28, 2023

I realized after writing about the financial aid practices at Ivy Plus universities, elite non-Ivy Plus colleges and universities, HBCUs, and large state universities, that there was a distinctive group…

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Language Majors – The Devil’s in the Details

August 23, 2023

Enrollments in U.S. colleges and universities flourished from 1940 through 2010. For the past decade and a half, many colleges have struggled with adjusting their fixed cost, campus-based business model…

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“What, me worry?” – WVU Proposes Program Cuts

August 22, 2023

Last week, the New York Times published a guest essay from associate professor of German Leif Weatherby at NYU. The title of the essay, What Just Happened at West Virginia…

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A College Navigator Primer – Florida Example

August 15, 2023

As rising seniors prepare to return to high school for their senior year, I thought I’d prepare an article discussing a way to find out a lot of information about…

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Admissions and Financial Aid Practices at Major Public Universities

August 14, 2023

Recently, I wrote several articles about admissions, financial aid awards, and net price for higher education institutions. The purpose for the first article in the sequence was to point out…

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Admissions and Financial Aid Practices at HBCUs

August 9, 2023

As I continue to reflect on the differences between private and public colleges and universities, I thought it would be interesting to look at the admissions and financial aid practices…

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