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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. In New York City?

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Creating the Learner and Learning-Centered University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Today’s customer-centered colleges and universities are not the learner and learning-centered universities we need. A customer-centric college or university prioritizes its brand. Also, many received an uneven high school education and therefore require Academics 101 training and learning supports.

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Expanding Federal Work Study to Create a More Diverse Teacher Pipeline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thanks to a new change in America’s federal work-study program, thousands more students like Halima could soon become tutors in America’s public schools to aid in the national pandemic learning recovery — and potentially diversify our nation’s teaching workforce. Jilo Tisdale On May 10, 2023, US Department of Education Secretary Dr. Miguel A.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, examined the data and metrics colleges and universities are using—or should explore going forward—to gauge the value they provide to their students and other constituents. An edited transcript of the discussions follows.

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Two colleges flounder under opaque for-profit owners

Inside Higher Ed

‘Sham Transactions and Kickbacks’ On its website , Ambow Education calls itself the “leading provider of K-12 educational services in China” with a business model that “covers K-12 in school education, tutoring services, international education programs and online educational offerings.”

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From Research and Theory Into Practice: hooks’ Homeplace Matters in the Educational Lives of Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is clear that education needs a new framework, one that loves and protects Black children and adolescents from these (and more) systemic harms while supporting their joy, resistance, growth, creativity, and healing. Mayes is an associate professor in the Department of Disabilities and Psychoeducational Studies at University of Arizona.

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Leader of Learning Podcast episode 137: How to Ensure Educational Success with Dr. Sam Nix

Leader of Learning

Nix has served as an Assistant Principal and Principal of both middle and high schools. Since 2006 he has served as an education consultant for Education Career Alternative Program (ECAP); has been awarded a Leadership-in-Education Award from the Texas House of Representatives; was nominated for the Martin Luther King Jr.