Date	Article	Source
12/22/2014	Blair Wins 15th Straight Beast of the East Tournament Titl	Blair Academy
	In an all-out team effort, Blair Academy wrestlers claimed their 15th-consecutive team title at the Beast of the East Tournament in Newark, Delaware, on December 21. Blair bested 97 teams in one of the nation’s toughest tournaments, earning 203 total team points in a come-from-behind victory and dec
12/21/2014	Williston Teams Enjoy Successful Tournaments	The Williston Northampton School
	Williston teams had an outstanding week on the holiday tournament circuit. The girls basketball and hockey teams won the championship at their respective tournaments. Boys basketball and hockey each went 2-1 in their competitions and the wrestling team finished 6th of 18 teams at their tournament at
12/17/2014	Alum gives McCallie $19 Million	Times Free Press
	An alumnus of McCallie School has anonymously donated $19 million to his alma mater.
10/30/2014	An heiress’s surprise $40 million gift pumps life into Virginia’s all-girls Foxcroft School	The Washington Post
	An heiress who lived modestly her whole life, gifts $40 million to Virginia’s all-girls Foxcroft School. “It’s a transformative gift,” said Cathy McGehee, Foxcroft’s head of school. “It will help us fully realize all of our dreams.”
10/22/2014	Keeling Pilaro can’t play field hockey with girls, but he and Episcopal help each other	The Washington Post
	Keeling Pilaro, 16, grew up playing field hockey in Ireland, but now practices with the girls’ team at Episcopal High School and plays in a co-ed adult league due to the lack of local boys' teams. Katherine Frey/The Washington Post
7/26/2014	Milton Hershey School names new President	WPVI Philadelphia
	Milton Hershey School selects Pete Gurt as its 10th President. Mr. Gurt began his Milton Hershey career at age 5 when his mother sent him to school there. Mr. Gurt has served in several roles at the school and is excited about taking the helm.
7/21/2014	Bridging Chinese, American cultures through summer camp	NBC News
	He spent three weeks in Colorado drifting down rivers and swatting his new friends during pillow fights. The out-of-textbook learning was most rewarding for Wang, who attends school regularly in China where field activities aren’t as frequent.
7/16/2014	Walnut Hill School for the Arts Alum Jourdan Epstein on So You Think You Can Dance	Walnut Hill School for the Arts
	Walnut Hill School for the Arts alum Jourdan Epstein '07 has made it into the top 20 on this season of the FOX hit show "So You Think You Can Dance." Tune in Wednesdays at 8 p.m. (EDT) to see if Jourdan makes it to the next round!
7/9/2014	Woodside Priory grad starts up "PeerVids" with Friends	InMenlo
	Charlie Tidmarsh, who graduated from Woodside Priory and two friends started the educational video company "PeerVids" on the premise that teens learn best from other teens. The videos feature subject matter correlating directly with the textbooks and courses taught at local high schools."
6/25/2014	Devin Williams ’13 travels to Togo with GlobeMed at MIT	The Madeira School
	Recent Madeira School graduate Devin Williams '13 traveled to the West Africa country of Togo as a member of GlobeMed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Williams ’13 was granted the a spot on a summer experiential learning trip.
6/19/2014	Lakefield College School alum crowned King of Spain	The Associated Press
	Spain's newly crowned King Felipe VI is a 1985 graduate of Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada.
6/6/2014	The Orme School Bestowed a $1.5 Million Burpee Foundation Grant	The Orme School
	On June 6, 2014 The Orme School announced that they "received a $1.5M grant from The Burpee Foundation of New York City, NY. The grant consists of --quite literally-- seed money for growing Orme’s “Food For Founders Hall” initiative."
6/5/2014	Exeter Alum had company backed by AOL Co-Founder Steve Case	TechCrunch.Com
	Exeter alum Kristen Groos Richmond '93 co-owner of Revolution Food, which works to provide healthy and affordable food for schools, recently received a $30 million dollar investment by AOL co-founder, Steve Case.
5/28/2014	St. George's School's Leo Chang places 3rd in the Country in The Poetry in Voice Contest	St. George's School Vancouver
	Leo Chang, grade 12, recently participated in The Poetry in Voice final, placing third in the country. Before a distinguished panel of judges and a sold out audience, he recited "Dog Boy" by Matthew Rohror, "Ozymandius" by Percy B. Shelley, & "Constantly Risking Absurdity" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
5/23/2014	Episcopal High School Headmaster Hershey Receives Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters	Episcopal High School
	Headmaster Rob Hershey was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) during its Commencement ceremony on May 22.
5/16/2014	Apply NOW: Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3)	Green School Alliance, US Fish & Wildlife Service
	The Green Schools Alliance and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service invite high school students to apply for the 2014 Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3). Program dates: June 22-28, 2014.
5/14/2014	Congratulations to those students named Presidential Scholars	US Office of Non-Public Education
	Congratulations Leigh M Braswell & Julie B Becher, Phillips Exeter Academy; Connor R Roth, Hotchkiss School; Tiffany K Guan, Milton Academy; Claire E Carroll & Farris M Peale, Phillips Academy; Justin M Shi, Stony Brook School; Thomas L West, IV, The McCallie School; Mun Yong Jang, St. Paul's.
4/30/2014	Culver Academies' employees dance, sing to 'Happy'	wndu.com
	Folks in the Culver community are pretty happy, and there’s video proof. They put together a video of nearly 500 Culver Academies employees dancing and singing to the song "Happy." The project involved 29 different departments.
4/24/2014	Fault in Our Stars Author John Green's Teen Appeal	Bloomberg Business Week
	Green describes his adolescence as stultifying. “I struggled,” he says. His parents threw him a lifeline in the form of Indian Springs, a progressive prep school near Birmingham, Ala., which Green credits with changing the course of his life.
4/24/2014	The Gunnery's Kelly-Aguirre Named Executive Director of School Year Abroad	School Year Abroad
	School Year Abroad (SYA) has named Eileen Kelly-Aguirre as its new Executive Director effective July 1, 2014 replacing Nelson Chase, who has served since 2007 and leaves to take up the post of Country Director for Peace Corps, Nepal.
4/10/2014	Developing a State Level Equitable Services Working Group	US Office of Non-Public Education
	Tuesday, April 29 at 12:00 noon (ET) ONPE will host a webinar featuring the collaborative work occurring in Virginia to establish a state level working group to address issues related to the participation of private school students and teachers in federal education programs.
3/31/2014	Rethink Leadership: Fostering a Learning-Centered Culture	Emma Williard
	A transformative experience designed specifically for all innovators, change agents, design thinkers, creative thinkers and those who aspire to make profound programmatic and cultural changes in their schools.
3/27/2014	Acting U.S. Surgeon General to Speak at Storm King School’s Commencement	Storm King School
	Storm King School’s Headmaster Paul Domingue has announced that Rear Admiral (RADM) Boris D. Lushniak, Acting Surgeon General of the United States, has accepted the school’s invitation to serve as Commencement speaker on June 7, 2014.
3/27/2014	Pushup Marathon At Avon Old Farms School To Help Veterans	The Courant
	Faculty and students at Avon Old Farms are participating in a push-up marathon this weekend. They will do 15 push-ups each minute for 24 hours in hopes to raise $20,000 for the Semper Fi Fund.
3/13/2014	Getting to know American Apparel Founder Charney	AmNewYork
	Choate Rosemary Hall graduate Dov Charney talks about the success of his American Apparel clothing line.
2/20/2014	Chaminade grad’s startup to be ‘Netflix for live performances’	St. Louis Business Journal
	Reuther is a 2004 Chaminade College Preparatory graduate and founder of OurVinyl.TV, one of the five companies recently accepted into the Capital Innovators accelerator program.
2/17/2014	Olympic Bobsledder Jamie Greubel: Blonde Dragon	NBC
	The Hun School of Princeton has it's sights set on alumna Jamie Greubel '02 February 18 and 19 as she competes in the Bobsled race for Team USA.
2/17/2014	Hun Alumnus Leopoldo López ’89 Stands Up for Venezuela	The Hun School of Princeton
	"Venezuela made international news last week for a series of protests opposing the current socialist government and the resulting violence. Hun School alumnus Leopoldo López Mendoza ’89 stands bravely at the center of this turmoil, fighting for the rights of the Venezuelan people."
2/16/2014	Middlesex Artists Recognized	Middlesex
	Four Middlesex artists were recently recognized by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for their exemplary work in painting and drawing.
2/14/2014	Hiroaki Umeda Combines Ballet And Technology In Unforgettable L.A. Sneak Peek	Huffington Post
	Walnut Hill School for the Arts alum Charlie Hodges '98 is dancing with the L.A. Dance Project in a multidisciplinary production by choreographer Hiroaki Umeda.
2/14/2014	Hun School of Princeton teacher Lynn McNulty teaches during traffic jam using FaceTime	CNN
	During a major traffic accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Friday, history teacher Lynn McNulty taught her AP European History class via FaceTime.
2/11/2014	Cushing Academy's Meghan Duggan Olympic Team Captain	NBC Boston
	Cushing Academy's Meghan Duggan '06 is the team captain for TEAM USA Women's hockey team. USA plays Canada in the Gold Final on Thursday, February 20.
2/8/2014	MIT/iGlobe Climate Education School Partner Program Kickoff	iGlobe
	MIT partners with iGlobe, Inc. to educate students on the climate. School Partnership Program kickoff is March 4th at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, NH. Museum and science store will be open to selective schools from 10am-4pm with a formal presentation at 1pm.
1/27/2014	Teenager Katherine Paseman Sat through a Presentation on Maternal Health—What She Did Next Will Make You Proud	Jhpiego
	The talk by one of Jhpiego’s promising engineering innovators helped kick off January for Jhpiego, a series of maternal health awareness events and fundraisers sponsored by Garrison Forest School and other girls’ schools. The presentation got 16-year-old Katherine thinking about how she could marry
1/27/2014	Westtown School touts green science center	Phily.com
	Westtown School has opened a $13 million science building stocked with innovative green technology that will be accessible to outside students through a summer program to launch this year. The building is a silver LEED certified building.
1/22/2014	25 Contemporary Building Designs That Are Making A Splash In The Architecture World	The Huffington Post
	The Hotchkiss School Biomass Power Plant is listed as one of the 25 contemporary buildings getting noticed in the architecture world. It is one of only two buildings in the United states that made the HuffPost list.
1/18/2014	From the Top, Show 281 (audio)	NPR
	Listen to the Idyllwild Arts Academy Piano Trio (violinist Yu-Ming Ma, cellist Wei-An Hung, and pianist Vuthithorn Chinthammit) from Idyllwild, California, performs III. Presto from Café Music by Paul Schoenfield
1/10/2014	Mark Murphy ’82 Encourages Students to “Travel Forward”	The Hun School of Princeton
	Hun School alumnus, entrepreneur, author, travel expert, and adventurer Mark Murphy ’82 spoke at The Hun School on Tuesday, January 7th as a member of the School’s Centennial Speaker Series.
1/10/2014	Gould Academy alum pursues Olympic Dreams	Gould Academy
	Gould Academy alum Troy Murphy '10 is competing for a spot on the US Olympic Freestyle skiing team.
1/9/2014	Hargrave Military Academy preparing to perform at governor's inaugural Parade	WSET-TV.com
	Hargrave Military Academy's marching band quickly accepted the chance to perform at the inauguration of Virginia's new governor, Terry McAuliffe. This is a first for the band, so they're taking this opportunity very seriously.
1/8/2014	Wind Generated Power to Supply 100% of The Storm King School’s Electricity Needs	Storm King School
	As part of its ongoing commitment to become a greener, more sustainable institution, The Storm King School will begin consuming electricity generated by local wind farms and natural gas, the production of which will be mitigated one hundred percent with carbon offsets.
1/4/2014	Walsh selects Daniel Arrigg Koh as mayoral chief of staff	The Boston Globe
	Phillips Academy alum Daniel Arrigg Koh '03 has been named Boston Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh's chief of staff. Koh is currently the general manager of Huffington Post Live and recently named one of Forbes 30 under 30.
1/3/2014	Former Carmel Valley kid Angelique Cabral 'Enlisted' on Fox	The Monterey Hearld
	Santa Catalina School alumna Angelique Cabral '97 is the lead character on the new TV series "Enlisted," which premieres on FOX this Friday, January 10 at 9:30|8:30c.
12/13/2013	Biology Students Attend Howard Hughes Holiday Lecture Series in Science	Episcopal High School
	Due to their interest in and their many positive contributions to last year's Advanced Bio class, Ye Ji Kim ’14, Emily Bivins ’14, and Natnael Kassaw ’14 were chosen by the Episcopal Science Dept. faculty to attend the Howard Hughes Holiday Lecture Series.
12/13/2013	New Leadership at The Essex Institute	The Essex Blog
	Tommy Adams, current Assistant Head of School for Enrollment at Mercersburg Academy (PA) and long time Essex Fellow will lead the Essex Institute as it enters its 29th year.
12/9/2013	St. Johnsbury Academy wins Edward E. Ford Foundation Leadership grant	Edward E. Ford Foundations
	The Youth Job Corps Program will provide 8th grade graduates the opportunity to learn hands-on skills, increase mathematical acumen, heighten communication and literacy skills, and learn how to lead and be part of a dynamic team—all while serving their community.
12/9/2013	Taft School wins Edward E. Ford Foundation Leadership grant	Edward E. Ford Foundations
	The Global Leadership Institute (GLI) will attract distinguished visiting experts to speak with students about the leading issues of our times. GLI students will participate in monthly Speaker Series as sophomores, a service experience prior to, and a project by the end of, their junior year.
12/9/2013	A Consistent High Note: Hun School A Cappella	The Hun School of Princeton
	Celebrating the tenth year of a cappella at The Hun School, the Edgertones seem to be on perpetual tour with a flurry of performances, invitations, and competitions; most recently performing at the TABS Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
12/5/2013	Trinity College School 2013 Educational Roundtable	Trinity College School
	Trinity College School pulled together some of Canada's most compelling thought leaders to discuss and debate several of the issues surrounding Canadian high school education. Transcripts online.
11/25/2013	ICE proposes changes to international student programs	U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement
	The change would eliminate the limit of 10 designated school officials (DSOs). DSOs are dedicated resources at SEVP-certified schools who help nonimmigrant students maintain their status, fill out important government forms and obtain benefits while in the US.
11/24/2013	2014 US Freestyle Moguls Team named	Ski Racing Online
	Holderness School alumna, Sophia Schwartz '09, was named to the 2014 U.S. Freestyle Moguls Team, led by Olympic champion Hannah Kearney and Olympic bronze medalist Bryon Wilson.
11/23/2013	Madison Cota '14 named Miss Vermont Teen USA	Miss Vermont Teen
	Vermont Academy senior Madison Cota '14, was crowned as the new Miss Vermont Teen USA on Saturday, November 23. Madison is an honors student and member of the girls varsity soccer and basketball teams.
11/20/2013	The Madeira School to host The Policy Institute, featuring Katie Koestner, on January 17	The Madeira School
	The Madeira School is pleased to host The Policy Institute on Friday, January 17, 2014. Schools will benefit a the one-day professional development opportunity which will address both in-person and on-line sexual misconduct.
11/18/2013	NextMover takes top spot at Santa Barbara Startup Weekend	Pacific Coast Business Times
	Dunn School teacher (and Asheville School alum) Alex Kehaya and sixteen-year-old Dunn student Abe Storey won first prize, $50,000, at the Sanat Barbara Startup Weekend for their NextMover company idea.
11/18/2013	Students learn challenges of ‘Gettysburg’	The Boston Globe
	Greenwood School student Ethan Pond won the school's annual Gettysburg Speech competition. The school and their Gettysburg Speech curriculum component are the feature of a new film by Ken Burns.
11/18/2013	Harris English Notches Second PGA Tour Win	Baylor School
	Harris English '07 has won his second PGA Tour event, the OHL Classic at Myakoba played in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
11/16/2013	A Lesson in Perseverance for a Giants Running Back	The New York Times
	Mike Cox's lessons in aspiring and persevering have served him well, both on the field with the New York Giants and at home, but the education began long before he arrived at Avon Old Farms.
11/16/2013	Local teenager prepares to climb for a cause close to her heart	Sentinel Source
	Northfield Mount Hermon School student, Hannah Green, will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa to raise money for cancer research. Hannah's father was diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2011.
11/12/2013	Caroline Kennedy sworn in as Japan ambassador	MSNBC
	Concord Academy alumna Caroline Kennedy '75 was sworn in as Japan Ambassador on Tuesday, November 12 at the State Department.
11/7/2013	Society of Skeptics Welcomes Emmy-Nominated Video Journalist	Blair Academy
	Taylor Krauss, an Emmy-nominated independent American video journalist, addressed the Society of Skeptics on Tuesday, November 12, at 7 p.m. in Bogle Hall’s Cowan Auditorium.
11/6/2013	2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools Applications Available	Council for American Private Education
	The 2014 Blue Ribbon Schools application is now available. The U.S. Government recognizes both public and private schools that are exemplary high performing or are exemplary achievement gap closing schools.
11/1/2013	Eye on Health - Brain Perfusion Devise	WRCBTV- Chattanooga
	McCallie junior Christian Devlin is featured on WRCBTV for a device he developed (with the help of his father and another doctor) that received a U.S. patent! The device helps reroute blood flow to the brain during a stroke.
11/1/2013	Board Names Ayanna Hill-Gill New Head of School	Atlanta Girls' School
	The Atlanta Girls' School Board of Trustees announced today the appointment of Ayanna Hill-Gill as the new Head of School, effective July 1, 2014.
10/24/2013	David O. Russell Honored By, Raises Money for, School for Kids With Special Needs	The Hollywood Reporter
	"Writer-director David O. Russell and Parenthood showrunner Jason Katims stepped out from behind the camera on Wednesday night to help raise money for a private boarding school for kids with special needs.
10/24/2013	Mad for Math	Dunn School
	Senior David Zou isn't just leading his peers at Dunn School in the weekly Math Madness offered through the American Mathematics Competitions, he's one of the leading scorers around the country.
10/23/2013	Groton Headmaster honored with Desmond Tutu Award	Groton School
	"South Africa Partners has announced that Groton Headmaster Temba Maqubela will receive its 2014 Desmond Tutu Social Justice Award. The award honors those who have demonstrated a commitment to social justice and to a free and democratic South Africa.
10/21/2013	Hanna Powers ’15 chosen as 2013 USHJA Youth Leadership Award recipient	The Madeira School
	The Washington International Horse Show recognized Hanna Powers for being chosen as the 2013 United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) Youth Leadership Award recipient. Hanna was the 2012 Youth Ambassador at Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) and is a part of the 2013 Junior Committee.
10/20/2013	Idyllwild Arts Academy teacher writes book "The Kind of Girl"	Chicago Tribune
	Kim Henderson, Chair of Idyllwild Arts Academy Creative Writing department, is profiled in the Chicago Tribune. Her book, "The Kind of Girl", won the seventh annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest and was released in a limited, hand-letterpressed run this summer.
10/18/2013	Santa Catalina School hosts TedX on campus	Santa Catalina School
	Katherine Hsu a student at Santa Catalina School in Monterey, CA coordinated a TedX event featuring speakers Kate Mitchell, Karen Draper, and Martha Muna.
10/18/2013	Ex-Marine is running 3,600 miles to honor veterans	Today Show
	Salisbury School alum Brendan O'Toole '07, a former Marine, is running across the country in honor of veterans. "The son and grandson of veterans, O'Toole made a boyhood vow to himself during the Sept. 11 attacks to follow them into military service."
10/16/2013	Schools to play hockey at Frozen Fenway	ESPN
	The Fenway Sports Group unveiled a MIAA tripleheader for New Year's Eve that will kick off with Boston Latin boys' hockey playing DCL/MVC rival Lincoln-Sudbury at 10:15 a.m. South Shore girls' hockey rivals Duxbury and Hingham will square off at 12:15 p.m. TABS member schools that will have the oppo
10/11/2013	Khan Academy and Phillips Academy break ground with innovative partnership	Phillips Academy Andover
	Phillips Academy Andover is working with Khan Academy in California " to develop rigorous adaptive exercises appropriate for a first-year course in calculus." What is unique about this partnership is that Khan Academy is an online classroom that provides "provide a free, world-class education to any
10/11/2013	Groton Graduate earns Princeton Academic Honors	Groton School
	Princeton University has awarded Julia Metzger, a 2011 graduate of Groton School, two of its highest academic honors. She received the Freshman First Honor Prize, given to a sophomore in recognition of exceptional academic achievement during freshman year, and the Shapiro Prize, which recognize
10/10/2013	Lets Lead. Together. $100 Million pledged to Mercersburg Academy	Mercersburg Academy
	Deborah Simon ’74 and her foundation have pledged $100 million to Mercersburg. Deborah’s groundbreaking gift is the largest in the school’s history and provides an enormous boost to the launch of the public phase of our comprehensive campaign, Daring to Lead.
10/8/2013	Saint Andrew's School (FL) hosts Round Square Int'l Conference	WPTV Channel 5 Boca Raton, FL
	Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton, FL hosts the Round Square International Conference (RSIC) this week. Over 700 students and guests from around the globe were in attendance at the opening ceremony. "The goal is to get young adults in one place and teach them how to be better leaders and servants
10/7/2013	For 3 Nobel Winners, a Molecular Mystery Solved	New York TImes
	Dr. Rothman, a professor at Yale University and member of the Pomfret Board of Trustees, is one of three honored for joint effort to unlock mystery of molecular transport in cells It was announced today that James Rothman ’67, a member of the School’s Board of Trustees, who is currently on the facu
10/6/2013	From the Top, Show 278 (audio)	NPR
	16-year-old pianist Niu Niu, originally from China, and currently studying at Walnut Hill School for the Arts performs Etudes, Op. 10, No. 3 in E major and No. 12 in C minor, “Revolutionary” by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), and “La Campanella” from Grandes Études de Paganini, S.141, No. 3 in G-sharp
10/1/2013	The Storm King School Purchases Fleet of Sail Boats Creating First Ever Sailing Team	Storm King School
	For the first time in the history of The Storm King School (SKS), sailing will be a part of the school’s athletic curriculum in the spring. Thanks to a very generous gift from Bruce Rowland, current parent of an SKS student, the school has been able to purchase a fleet of six 420 sailboats from the
10/1/2013	Interview with Callie Hoon, Deerfield Academcy '15	Pioneer Institute (MA)
	“I would love to see more history classes offered at high schools nationwide and more of them allowing students to write long papers over the course of the academic year.”
10/1/2013	Interview with Ryan Voon, Groton School '14	Pioneer Institute (MA)
	“Logically a significant part of a society’s culture and politics also derives from its historical legacy.”
9/24/2013	Darlington's Moss ('63) named national trustee chair of ACCIS	Darlington School
	Sam Moss, dean of college guidance, has been named chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS). Moss officially took office on Sept. 19 at the ACCIC Annual Membership Meeting in Toronto, Canada.
9/23/2013	Celebrating Peddie's past, present and future	Peddie School
	Peddie School installed its 16th headmaster on Saturday, Sept. 21 during a campus celebration that also marked the school’s 150th anniversary. Peter A. Quinn was unanimously appointed headmaster by the Peddie Board of Trustees beginning in the 2013-14 school year. His appointment was a homecoming to
9/20/2013	Saint Mary's School senior publishes in Concord Review	Concord Review
	Katherine Frances Cayton '14 published an historical essay on the Ukrainian Famine in the Fall 2013 issue (vol. 24, no.1) of the Concord Review, the world's only historical review for secondary students. Cayton is a senior at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, North Carolina.
9/20/2013	New Cushing Academy Headmaster Finds Inspiration In Building Futures	Sentinel & Enterprise
	Torino said he believes in educating the whole student, which includes athletics, art and extra-curricular activities.
9/3/2013	Trip of a Lifetime	Brooks School Alumni Newsletter
	English teacher Leigh Perkins '81 and her daughter, Sam Grant '14, recently returned from the "trip of a lifetime," thanks to this year's McVey Fellowship. The pair worked at the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), for two weeks this summer in Kabul.
8/30/2013	Webb School Senior Reflects on Time at Governor's School	The Webb School
	Adam Mansell, a senior at The Webb School, attended Governor's School for International Studies at the University of Memphis during summer. Mansell knew that the academic experience would benefit him during his final year at Webb and in college.
8/29/2013	Reigning Miss America Visits Tallulah Falls School	Tallulah Falls School
	Mallory Hagan, the current reigning Miss America, made a very special appearance at Tallulah Falls School. Hagan spoke to a school-wide assembly on Thursday, August 29 before speaking at benefit fundrasier for Prevent Child Abuse Habersham at Piedmont College that evening. Since being crowned Miss
8/23/2013	Standing Up to the Taliban, in School	New York Times - International Weekly
	Saba landed at Dulles airport in Virginia two months ago with eight SOLA classmates, all of whom were sent to summer programs

Date	Article	Source
1/28/2015	The most expensive boarding school in the world	New York Post
	It counts some of the world’s most famous faces and families among its alumni.
1/28/2015	As numbers of homeless kids rise, resources fall short	Marketplace [audio]
	The number of students experiencing homelessness in the U.S. has increased 85 percent since before the recession, according to Department of Education data. But the resources available to help them have remained flat.
1/27/2015	US institutions expanding joint and dual degree arrangements abroad	ICEF Monitor
	A UK report found that about a third of all international undergraduate students in England transferred from programmes delivered offshore. Another Canadian survey notes that the number of institutions offering programmes in collaboration with international partners has nearly doubled since 2006.
1/26/2015	Canadian universities more focused on internationalisation	ICEF Monitor
	A significant majority of Canadian universities – 82% – now place internationalisation among their top five strategic priorities. This represents a 5% increase over a previous survey in 2006.
1/23/2015	Should teachers be allowed to touch students?	The Atlantic
	Sheltering children from physical contact deprives educators of an important instructional tool and students of an essential learning experience.
1/20/2015	Illinois says students must give teachers their Facebook passwords	Motherboard
	School districts in Illinois are telling parents that a new law may require school officials to demand the social media passwords of students if they are suspected in cyberbullying cases or are otherwise suspected of breaking school rules.
1/20/2015	More schools are serving their students supper, too	Columbus Dispatch
	The introduction of dinner to school routines is unique in that it could take the place of what many consider a near-sacred ritual: The family dinner.
1/20/2015	Eight ways to encourage more students to study engineering	The Guardian (UK)
	We need curriculum reform, lower tuition fees and better careers advice to increase application rates for engineering degrees, say sector experts
1/20/2015	For parents, now begins the anxious waiting game for college financial aid	Wshington Post
	Paying for college is now a lot like buying a plane ticket. You have no idea how much the person sitting next to you is paying because most schools discount their tuition to maximize their enrollment numbers and revenue.
1/17/2015	Helping the poor in education: The power of a simple nudge	New York Times
	[Researchers] set up a system of automatic, personalized text messages that reminded high school students about their college deadlines. The texts included links to required forms and live counselors.
1/16/2015	The rising costs of youth sports, in money and emotion	New York Times
	JOHN AMAECHI first picked up a basketball when he was 17, after suffering through years of playing rugby in England. He soon left for Ohio to finish high school. Six years later, he started at center for the Cleveland Cavaliers and went on to have a solid N.B.A. career.
1/16/2015	Students gain access to files on admission to Stanford	New York Times
	For as long as people have griped about college admissions, one of the biggest complaints has been that it is a black box — applications go in, acceptances and rejections come out, but nobody can see what happens inside.
1/16/2015	Why some teams are smarter than others	New York Times
	Psychologists have known for a century that individuals vary in their cognitive ability. But are some groups, like some people, reliably smarter than others?
1/16/2015	LinkedIn rolls out new school selection services for prospective students	ICEF Monitor
	Last year, we reported on LinkedIn’s launch of University Pages which allow users as young as 13 to use the site. That article remains a good starting point in understanding what universities can do with their pages; today’s post is about what’s happened since.
1/15/2015	FCC’s New E-rate Order Brings More Money Supporting Fiber Investment	EdCentral Highlights
	Schools and libraries are going to get a big boost in their Internet connectivity over the next few years.
1/14/2015	Ed entrepreneur want to clean up the online college-search business	Chronicle of Higher Education
	The Internet has hundreds of college-search sites, most of them guided not by sophisticated algorithms but by money: Colleges directly or indirectly pay the sites to get names of prospective students, and the sites give play to the colleges that are paying the most for those "leads," often without c
1/14/2015	Yik Yak, Anonymous Gossip Sites Won't Go Away	Huffington Post
	Students protested at Colgate in September, arguing that the racist messages circulating on Yik Yak were symptomatic of larger diversity issues at the school.
1/14/2015	Russian parents, agents suffer effects of rouble crash	PIE News
	After a year of obstacles to outbound study, including visa delays, a declining rouble and strong foreign currency rates, agents are now suffering the effects of December’s rouble crash.
1/12/2015	Students Leave Over $2.9 Billion in Free College Money on the Table	nerdwallet
	Their mistake? Not completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or the FAFSA. Our figures show that 47% of all 2013 high school graduates didn’t complete this required first step that could’ve earned them Pell Grant money, which unlike student loans, does not need to be paid back.
1/12/2015	Why college costs so much: A look at Williams	WBUR
	The No. 1 reason for the cost of college is the people. About two-thirds goes to compensation and benefits for faculty and staff.
1/12/2015	Freshman year key to college career	Diverse
	The classes a student takes in his or her freshman year have the power to make or break the rest of their college career. Yet fundamental courses like first-year composition are increasingly relegated to the instruction of adjunct instructors or are moved online.
1/12/2015	Learn about the redesigned SAT suite of assessments	College Board
	The College Board is launching a redesigned SAT in March 2016 and a redesigned PSAT/NMSQT and PSATTM 8/9 in October 2015. Closely aligned to challenging classroom work, the redesigned assessments will focus on the few things that evidence shows matter most for college and career readiness.
1/12/2015	Colleges ratchet up recruiting of applicants — just to turn them down	Hechinger Report
	“Recruit to deny” makes schools look more selective, at students’ expense
1/12/2015	Middle-class aspirations the real driver of demand for higher education	ICEF Monitor
	...sometimes referred to as the “massification” of higher education – a pronounced shift in the role of tertiary education from, “Simply reproducing part of the social elite, to training a broad range of professionals, to adaptation of the wider population to rapid social and technological change.”
1/11/2015	The future of online learning	Financial Times
	In the first of an occasional series featuring two experts debating a hot topic for students, Anant Agarwal and Chip Paucek, chief executives of online learning providers edX and 2U respectively, share their predictions for business education in 2020.
1/9/2015	Managing negative feedback on social media	ICEF Monitor
	The catch with social media is, well, it’s social. It’s a forum for conversation, not one-way promotion.
1/9/2015	GSA Wants to Help You Go Green!	GSA January Newsletter
	The Green Schools Alliance is now accepting applications for Sc3 & The Green Cup Challenge!
1/8/2015	Saskatchewan launches international education strategy	PIE News
	The province has unveiled a new international education strategy that aims to increase the number of incoming post-secondary level international students by 75% by 2020, helping to plug a labour market gap and build international trade ties.
1/7/2015	Market Snapshot: Mexico	ICEF Monitor
	Mexico is first and foremost a Latin American nation, yet it is also geographically part of North America and its efforts to build student mobility initiatives have recently focused on its continental neighbours, the US and Canada.
1/7/2015	Group projects and the secretary effect	The Atlantic
	How team assignments in school reinforce traditional gender roles in kids and adults.
1/6/2015	US moves to double its number of outbound students by 2018	ICEF Monitor
	“The US education system is highly decentralised. This means there’s little national coordination on most higher education policy issues, including those that affect student mobility.
1/6/2015	What students in China have taught me about US college admissions	The Atlantic
	International admission officers must get comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and exercising their discretion. They have to look past documents, which can be easily falsified. They have to look past test scores because their emphasis distorts the entire high school experience.
1/5/2015	Edinburgh U. hopes to be 50% international	PIE News
	The University of Edinburgh intends to give half of its places to international students in a bid to “attract the best students from around the world”.
1/5/2015	On loving literature	VQR
	Their deconstructionist shenanigans, their absurd and absurdist skepticism, posited that language doesn’t really mean what it says, that language must always be a puzzle pointing to other puzzles. The real puzzle was how anyone could have erected a theory upon a void.
1/5/2015	Orality, literacy, and the memorized poem	Poetry
	It so happens that Ponyboy and Johnny are among the final generation of students who would have experienced mandatory poetry memorization and recitation as a common element of their American education. (In fact, so was Hinton, who was fifteen years old when she began writing The Outsiders and eighte
1/1/2015	7 things you need before you fill out the FAFSA	US ED
	The 2015­­–16 FAFSA [became] available on January 1, 2015. You can fill it out for FREE on the official government site, fafsa.gov. To speed up the FAFSA process, get prepared early.
12/31/2014	Unseen app strengthens filters to reduce campus misuse	Education News
	Identified as “the hybrid of Snapchat and YikYak”, the app enables similar minded students to connect with each other via anonymous photo shares and texts. The posts can then be “voted up” or “voted down” and are subject to anonymous comments.
12/30/2014	How to learn efficiently	Daniel Lemire [blog]
	I am convinced that much of the gap between the best college students and the worst is explained by study habits. Frankly, most students study poorly. To make matters worse, most teachers are incapable of teaching good study habits.
12/27/2014	China's small schools go digital	English.news.cn
	Small schools in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region have "gone digital", meaning that all 63,600 of the country's small schools now have access to digital teaching devices and resources.
12/26/2014	Making language immersion fun for kids	New York Times
	To help her children become bilingual, a travel writer investigates options from public school programs at home to day camps abroad.
12/25/2014	College counselors in short supply at U.S. [public] schools	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
	Large public high schools across the country struggle with staggering ratios of students to guidance counselors. Nationally, that ratio is nearly 500-to-1, a proportion experts say has remained virtually unchanged for more than 10 years. And when it comes time to apply to college, all of the student
12/22/2014	Overcoming writer's block: Three tips	The Guardian (U.K.)
	Academics tend to use procrastination as an explanation for writer’s block, says Rowena Murray, but really, they are just avoiding asking for help
12/20/2014	Steps to Creating a Teacher-Powered School	Education Evolving
	The guide walks teachers through the stages in creating a school designed and run by teachers. It's an updated, interactive version of the PDF guide with the same name released earlier this year.
12/20/2014	Guide to Digital Learning	SEDTA
	A free online resource to assist states and school districts to plan for and implement smart digital learning initiatives.
12/20/2014	Lake Mills Elementary is schooled in green building design	Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
	Energy-efficient new school at top of LEED honor roll
12/19/2014	Russians weigh travel options as rouble pllunges	ICEF Monitor
	Significant devaluations in national currencies are most keenly felt when people try to spend the weakened currency outside the country: to buy imported products, for example, or to travel abroad.
12/19/2014	New US-Cuba ties spell exiting opportunities	PIE News
	Following the announcement, it now appears that the administration will issue new regulations to end all restrictions on educational programmes to Cuba from the US that do not bear academic credit.
12/18/2014	Private colleges are a waste of money for white, middle class kids	Washington Post [op/ed]
	The happiest [college graduates are] the ones who developed a relationship with a mentor, participated in extracurricular activities or took on a major academic project -- all things you can do at any school. The biggest predictor of whether a graduate wasn't thriving was whether he or she had stude
12/18/2014	Market snapshot: Angola	ICEF Monitor
	Angola has made headlines for its breathtaking pace of growth due to its wealth of natural resources, most notably its plentiful oil and gas reserves.
12/18/2014	Congress keeps NASA education programs aloft	Science Insider
	NASA announced it would soon be requesting “team-based proposals for SMD science education” as part of a reshuffling of how the directorate will manage those programs. The preliminary notice says that NASA “intends to select one or more” teams to be the primary contractors.
12/18/2014	Education and Workforce Data	US Government Accountability Office
	Challenges in Matching Student and Worker Information Raise Concerns about Longitudinal Data Systems
12/18/2014	Boost your chances for college aid	Wall Street Journal
	Shifting Income and Spending Strategically Can Help to Qualify for Need-Based Aid
12/17/2014	An alternative to suspension and expulsion: 'Circle up!'	NPR [audio]
	Instead of suspending or expelling students who get into fights or act out, restorative justice seeks to resolve conflicts and build school community through talking and group dialogue.
12/16/2014	Can a child's creativity and ambition be assessed by a game?	KQED Mind Shift
	Academic standards are only one part of nurturing a well-rounded and successful student. There are a host of other skills like creativity, persistence, critical thinking, collaboration and empathy that help make a student successful in school and in life, but are less quantifiable.
12/16/2014	A black hole for our best and brightest	Washington Post
	Wall Street is expanding, and the economy is worse off for it.
12/15/2014	The inaugural National Data Science Bowl	Booz, Allen, & Hamilton
	Enter the first-ever National Data Science Bowl. We will award $175,000 to those able to observe the right patterns, ask the right questions and, in turn, make our beautiful and complex world a little easier to understand and a better place to live. Register for free.
12/15/2014	Ferguson Library sees flood of donations after unrest	NBC News [video]
	The Ferguson Public Library stayed open during the chaos following the grand jury decision in the death of Michael Brown.
12/15/2014	Adding eyes: Multi-rater teacher observation systems	Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching [download]
	State and local policymakers are starting to replace the often-cursory teacher observations of the past with more comprehensive and meaningful practices.
12/15/2014	Poll shows parent concern over middle, high school football	Education News
	A recently released Bloomberg Politics poll has shown that 50% of Americans do not want their sons to play football, and just 17% of Americans are of the opinion that the sport will grow more popular in the next 20 years.
12/13/2014	Where teens have the most homework	The Atlantic
	An international ranking, from 14 hours a week in China to three in Finland
12/13/2014	Treating autism: In development	The Economist
	Companies struggle to meet soaring demand for autism treatments.
12/12/2014	The Lombardi of teen running	Wall Street Journal
	High School Coach Bill Aris Has Won Nine National Titles by Stressing Teamwork Over Individuality
12/12/2014	Market snapshot: Columbia	ICEF Monitor
	Colombian students often begin planning for overseas study more than a year in advance, and family members are closely involved.
12/12/2014	A Brooklyn school's curriculum includes ambition	New York Times
	“I want to leave Brownsville because a lot of violence goes on,” said Kareem, 12, soft-spoken in a navy sweatshirt and gray cargo pants, a backpack over his shoulder. “I feel that I could have a better life.”
12/12/2014	Lego reissues popular science line for girls	New York Times
	Lego reissued the Research Institute, a limited-edition set of women working in a laboratory. Supplies of the Research Institute sold out quickly over the summer in the face of a dearth of toys aimed at girls.
12/11/2014	Narrow our job skills gap by building educational pipelines	Bellingham Herald / Chicago Tribune [op/ed]
	A number of companies and partners have pioneered a whole new approach to sourcing workers by applying the lessons of supply chains. We call this talent pipeline management.
12/11/2014	Canadian higher ed increasingly outward looking	PIE News
	Canadian universities are undergoing a shift away from nationally focussed and academic goals toward provincial and institutional-level international strategies. Compared to eight years ago, internationalisation is considered a “top priority” at 82% of Canadian universities, up from 70%.
12/11/2014	Funding to expand schools’ high-speed Internet	EdSource
	The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to increase funding that supporters say will expand the Internet capacity for an additional 40 million students in 100,000 schools nationwide.
12/10/2014	UK: Appetite for higher ed spurs boom in younger years boarders	PIE News
	With their sights set on the UK’s higher education system, parents new to the world’s middle class are sending their children overseas earlier in an attempt to secure access to elite universities.
12/9/2014	More to be done to improve online education outcomes	PIE News
	While MOOCs and e-learning have increased access to developing countries, minorities, and those who might not have previously been able to engage in tertiary education, problems around completion rates, and quality of learning outcomes are still rife.
12/9/2014	Common Core politics: Will the standards survive through 2016?	Real Clear Education
	As more states race toward the Common Core’s first spring testing season, the academic standards’ most ardent critics are looking for every chance to eliminate them from state policies.
12/9/2014	Want to help students improve? Mark them on their progress.	The Guardian (UK)
	By giving students a mark that reflects personal development – rather than a comparison with peers – we can avoid demotivating lower-achievers.
12/9/2014	When charter schools are non-profit in name only	Pro Publica
	Some charters pass along nearly all their money to for-profit companies hired to manage the schools. It’s an arrangement that’s raising eyebrows.
12/7/2014	Schools tout huge scholarship dollars, but not all of the money is used	Washington Post
	That’s because the figures that dazzle many parents often include numerous scholarship offers from colleges that students apply to but do not attend. Top students can receive combined offers that reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but they can cash in on only one college’s offer.
12/4/2014	White House report: Native American education in "state of emergency"	Huffington Post
	Few states have educational standards that teach modern Native American history. According to research, nearly 87 percent of state history standards fail to cover Native American history past the year of 1900.
12/4/2014	Mystery shopping experiment on social media: Is anyone out there?	ICEF Monitor
	What happens when a prospective international student uses Facebook and Twitter to indicate their interest in finding out more about your institution? [note: article topic is higher education]
12/4/2014	Canada: Higher Ed study permits up 11%	PIE News
	Canada’s higher education sector is on track to welcome a record number of international students in 2014
12/4/2014	School that banned Red Bull sees detention plunge by a third	The Daily Mail (UK)
	Drinks such as Monster, Red Bull and Relentless combine so much sugar and caffeine that Government advisers warn they make children hyperactive and difficult to control.
12/3/2014	Is the US focussing too much on STEM?	The Atlantic
	Some critics say the recent obsession with science and tech compromises other parts of kids' education.
12/2/2014	America doesn't have an education problem, it has a class problem	Quartz
	A poor Moroccan kid in France is more likely to move into the middle class than a child born into a poor family in Mississippi. The US and Britain have the lowest intergenerational social mobility in Europe and North America--our ultimate earnings are now heavily correlated with those of our parents
12/2/2014	Identifying Autism from Neural Representations of Social Interactions: Neurocognitive Markers of Autism	PLOS 1
	The main goal of this study was to determine how the neural representations and meanings of social concepts (such as to insult) are altered in autism. A second goal was to determine whether these alterations can serve as neurocognitive markers of autism.
12/1/2014	Most college students do not graduate in four years	New York Times
	At most public universities, only 19 percent of full-time students earn a bachelor’s degree in four years, the report found. Even at state flagship universities — selective, research-intensive institutions — only 36 percent of full-time students complete their bachelor’s degree on time.
11/30/2014	Old tactic get new use: Public schools separate girls and boys	New York Times
	Single-sex education, common in the United States until the 19th century, when it fell into deep disfavor except in private or parochial schools, is on the rise again in public schools as educators seek ways to improve academic performance, especially among the poor.
11/30/2014	College discipline system findings trouble officials	Columbus Dispatch
	colleges should be made more accountable for discipline decisions that are made in secret, often without the help or knowledge of police
11/29/2014	Online education run amok?	Politico
	Massive open online courses, first envisioned as a way to democratize higher education, have made their way into high schools, but Washington is powerless to stop the flood of personal data about teenage students from flowing to private companies, thanks to loopholes in federal privacy laws.
11/28/2014	White House plan targets Native American schools	MSNBC
	The Obama administration is pushing ahead with a plan to target Native American schools, often some of the lowest-performing schools in the country. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell shares how the initiative will work.
11/26/2014	Canada to introduce tailored student visa advice training	PIE News
	The proposed new credential should ease financial pressures for education institutions as they work to comply with Bill C-35: legislation that means as of last year only registered consultants are allowed to advise international students on immigration issues.
11/25/2014	Kids, teachers, schools using social media a different pace	Education News
	Schools are not only concerned about students’ activity online, but teachers’ activity as well. Schools are implementing codes of conduct that include rules against teachers “friending” students on social media sites. This is for the protection of the teachers as much as the students.
11/25/2014	Obama's immigration overhaul to benefit some international students	PIE News
	The changes mean students studying STEM subjects will be permitted to remain in the USA for up to 29 months after graduating, while non-STEM students are eligible to stay in the country for up to 12 months.
11/25/2014	Record high international enrollment in Canada in 2013	ICEF Monitor
	The number of international students in Canada has increased by 84% over the last decade, growing 22.8% from 2011 to 2013 and 11% from 2012 to 2013.
11/24/2014	Dubai: New operations models for private schools	PIE News
	Last year, KHDA reported record 10% growth in private school operations with the opening of 11 new schools including eight British, two Indian and one Canadian.
11/24/2014	Why is American teaching so bad?	New York Review of Books
	Who becomes a teacher in America? The answer keeps changing, and not in ways that should make any of us proud.
11/24/2014	Asians get the Ivy League's Jewish treatment	USA Today [op/ed]
	Quotas to keep minorities out of schools were once considered racist and unfair, but colleges think it is just fine as long as they discriminate against the right minorities.
11/22/2014	Studying for the test by taking it	New York Times
	Two U. Texas psychologists threw out the final exam in their intro course and replaced it with a series of quizzes that students took on their laptops at the beginning of each class. “They didn’t like it, at least at first.” But they did significantly better than a comparison intro psych class.
11/21/2014	Permanent residency drives 50% of internationals in Canada	PIE News
	Half of Canada’s international students intend to apply for permanent residence. This is helping fuel a rise in international student enrolments to Canada.
11/21/2014	CBIE releases status report on international education	CBIE
	The report provides a range of statistics and in-depth analysis. It features a wealth of data from a survey of international students based on over 3,000 responses from a cross-Canada sample of 25 of CBIE’s 150 member institutions.
11/20/2014	Why I hate (and love) visualizations of mathematics	Jeremy Kun [blog]
	You can’t analyze Markov chains with a visualization. You can use visualizations to get ideas, but you can’t check if those ideas are valid. Markov chains are inherently quantitative but visualizations are qualitative.
11/20/2014	Surprise: Humanities Degrees Provide Great Return On Investment	Forbes [op/ed]
	While it is certainly true that science, engineering, math and business degrees all produce graduates with high expected salaries, those humanities degrees still pay off rather handsomely.
11/20/2014	Humanities: Doomed to Lose?	The New Criterion [op/ed]
	How humanities professors are letting identity politics destroy their discipline.
11/19/2014	Common Core: How we got here and where we are headed	Heritage Foundation [video]
	What impact will Common Core have on private school students and families who choose to homeschool?
11/18/2014	"Inward looking" Japanese student a myth	PIE News
	Interest in study abroad among Japanese students is “similar to, if not more favourable than” that of their US and UK counterparts.
11/18/2014	International enrollment continues to grow in US	ICEF Monitor
	The US recorded its eighth consecutive year of international enrolment growth, expanding 8% in 2013/14 to reach a record high of 886,052 students. Those students generated an estimated economic impact of US$27 billion and accounted for more than 340,000 American jobs.
11/18/2014	Colleges saw flood of students at recession's peak, discouraging results	Chronicle of Higher Education
	Only 55 percent of the students who entered college in the fall of 2008, at the peak of the Great Recession, had earned college degrees or certificates by May 2014.
11/18/2014	A cynical game the college admissions offices play	EdCentral
	Yale sends such solicitations to about 80,000 high school students a year to fill a class of 1,300. The university rejects nearly 94 percent of students who apply.
11/18/2014	FCC to incease broadband funding in schools	EdCentral
	providing much needed resources to help fund high-speed connectivity for schools and libraries across the nation
11/17/2014	The sorry state of vocational training	Hechinger Report
	"Change is happening at a much faster pace. What we need are strong academics and workplace preparation that doesn’t prepare people for one job that doesn’t exist in the future.”
11/17/2014	Record 900,000 international students in US: top countries they hail from	Christian Science Monitor
	While the bulk of international students coming to the US are from China, students are coming from an increasingly diverse set of countries. The annual 'Open Doors' report gives the latest breakdown.
11/17/2014	Teaching the next generation of coders	NBC News [video]
	Kwame Anku, director of strategic development at #YesWeCode, joins Joy Reid to discuss teaching African-American and disadvantaged youths how to code, joining the tech economy.
11/17/2014	Toning down the tweets, just in case colleges pry	New York Times
	“Students know college admissions departments are looking,” Mr. Isom said. “They are cleaning up their online profiles before they ever apply.”
11/17/2014	CIEE pledges $20 million to US study abroad	PIE News
	This donation is the largest of some 450 commitments made to the GSA five-year initiative so far, which was launched with the goal of doubling the number of US students abroad by 2020.
11/15/2014	Parent Admission Survey Report	SSATB
	Do you know your 2 most effective marketing tools? How many families applied to every school they visited? How many thought open houses helped them decide where to apply?
11/14/2014	Graduates of elite colleges see a payoff	Wall Street Journal
	Sure, it’s nice to have a graduate degree from Yale, but a new study finds that attending an elite undergraduate institution counts for an awful lot when it comes to lifelong earnings.
11/13/2014	Snow Days may be over for students	NBC News [video]
	educators are teaching lessons online when inclement weather prevents classes from being held in the building
11/13/2014	Design education is 'tragic'	de zeen magazine
	Apple's head designer Jonathan Ive says he struggles to hire young staff as schools are failing to teach them how to make products.
11/13/2014	SEVP releases quarterly report on international students in the US	US Department of Homeland Security
	The report includes the latest data from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), a Web-based system that includes information about international students, exchange visitors and their dependents while they are in the United States.
11/13/2014	Four predictions for digital marketing	ICEF Monitor
	Forbes gathered responses from 20 experienced digital marketing experts to frame their predictions, and the first one they landed on was that content will be more important than ever in 2015.
11/13/2014	Decades of Neglect Show Starkly as Indian Schools Cry Out for Repairs	New York Times
	“I think everyone agrees that our children deserve better, but these are tough budget times and it’s difficult,” said Charles Roessel, the director of the Indian education bureau.
11/13/2014	Denmark most proficient, Shanghai outpaces Hong Kong	PIE News
	Denmark has overtaken Sweden to become the nation with the most proficient English speakers in the world according to the fourth EF English Proficiency Index (EPI). And, for the first time ever, a mainland Chinese city, Shanghai, has a higher level of English language proficiency than Hong Kong.
11/12/2014	How AIDS changed the history of sex education	TIME
	Koop made it clear that he was talking about graphic instruction starting “at the lowest grade possible.” Because of the “deadly health hazard,” he said later, “we have to be as explicit as necessary to get the message across. You can’t talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.”
11/12/2014	US-China extend visa validation for students, visitors	PIE News
	Starting today, Chinese visitors and students to the US will be granted visas valid for up to 10 years after US President Barack Obama announced at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
11/12/2014	Survey shows growing interest in education agents among US colleges	ICEF Monitor
	US colleges and universities are facing increasing pressure to hit recruitment targets, and anxiety about not meeting them is creeping up.
11/12/2014	How much would you pay to get your kid in the Ivy League?	NBC News
	High school students and their parents have become so panicked with the mystique surrounding today's college admissions process that they are clamoring to find help to better their odds in the college admissions game.
11/12/2014	College atheletes of the world, Unite	Jacobin
	Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes on the exploitation of college athletes.
11/12/2014	Online and distance learning in Southwest Tennessee	US ED
	A group of rural districts in Tennessee said they primarily offered online or distance learning so that students could earn college credit while still in high school
11/11/2014	Study reveals most popular online recruiting strategies of US colleges	ICEF Monitor
	In a separate ranking of 21 social media platforms, Facebook remains the most commonly used social channel among US institutions, followed by Twitter and YouTube.
11/11/2014	Scientists have unlocked a state of child-like fast learning in the adult brain	Science Alert
	By interrupting the activity of a receptor protein in mice, researchers have managed to revert adult brains to a malleable, quick-learning child-like state.
11/10/2014	Hispanic students are making steady math progress	Washington Post
	Between 2003 and 2013, the average math scores for Hispanic students in U.S. public schools rose nine points in fourth grade and 13 points in eighth grade. NAEP is graded on a scale of 1 to 500; the gains realized by Hispanic students are roughly equivalent to one grade level.
11/7/2014	Here's what to include on your college application	NBC News - Education Nation [video]
	College admissions professionals discuss the qualities of a great admissions essay and why it’s important for students to come across as authentic.
11/6/2014	US college stakeholders combine forces to improve campus safety	ICEF Monitor
	incidents such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech have made more families reconsider where their students should be going for their education abroad
11/6/2014	The growing appeal of a 3-year degree	CBS MoneyWatch
	the trend is apparently hanging on -- and perhaps gaining some momentum. About two dozen private U.S. colleges now offer three-year degree programs
11/5/2014	On B-school test, Americans fail to measure up	Wall Street Journal
	High GMAT Scores From China, India Spur Separate Rankings for U.S. Students
11/5/2014	5 ideas for reducing the effect of kids' trauma	Education News
	They don’t wear signs announcing the state of their inner worlds, except when they act out with the anti-social behavior we all find maddening.
11/5/2014	Can the Universal College Application rival the Common App?	Education News
	Several elite institutions of higher education have made the decision to allow applicants to choose between using the Common Application or an alternative online application because of dramatic technical problems last year for those who applied via the Common App.
11/5/2014	Turning 3-year olds into scientists	The Atlantic
	They may not be doing algebra, but pre-K kids can master scientific concepts that will make a big difference later on.
11/4/2014	Why trust is a crucial ingrediant in shaping independent learners	KQED Mind Shift
	Preparing students to be “college and career ready” is a catch phrase in many schools, but those same institutions often block large swaths of the internet in an attempt to protect students from acting inappropriately online.
11/4/2014	Parents seeking preschool slots start early	EdSource
	Miranda Pan runs a preschool offering a Mandarin immersion program; she said signing up for preschool can be as intense as applying for college. One couple trying to secure a spot on the waiting list showed up at Pan’s home one evening with their 1-month-old to show her “the baby had been born!”
11/4/2014	What happens when a robotics class starts the year with no robots?	Hechinger Report
	He had to craft a solution with what he had on hand. As a math teacher, he had graphing calculators and materials. He used them to craft a lesson that taught students how to write code for a simple math game. It would introduce them to algorithmic thinking.
11/4/2014	Study: Pressure for girls to be 'sexy' harms academics	Education News
	Girls who are greatly affected by societal pressures to be sexy do not perform as well academically as girls who do not internalize these pressures, according to recent studies.
11/4/2014	Number of Vietnamese abroad up 15% in 2013	ICEF Monitor
	Australia and the US, meanwhile, have been the top-ranked destinations for several years now. As we reported earlier, “Vietnamese students reportedly regard higher education in the US as ‘the best in the world’ and ‘as a priority worthy of significant financial investment.’
11/4/2014	Inaugural US News global rankings show some surprises	PIE News
	US News also worked to differentiate itself with a numerical listing of universities based on 20 subject areas, as well as publishing the rankings for each of the 10 indicators used in its methodology.
11/3/2014	Everybody's doing it: Social proof and recruitment marketing	ICEF Monitor
	A psychological phenomenon where people assume the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct behaviour for a given situation. This effect is driven by the assumption that surrounding people possess more knowledge about the situation.
11/3/2014	More than 6,000 charter schools now operate in the US	Hechinger Report
	Still, at 6,079 schools in total, charters represented only 6 percent of the U.S. public school system of 98,454 elementary, middle and high schools.
11/3/2014	Sub-Saharan Africa as an emerging market for millenial students	WES
	Millennial students’ proclivity for technology during their college-search processes also applies to Sub-Saharan Africa, where mobile devices have emerged as the main medium for accessing the internet, and use of mobile devices during the college search and application process is above the average.
11/3/2014	Private school students boost SAT scores	CAPE Outlook [download]
	SAT scores for the [total] 2014 crop of high school graduates were stubbornly stuck at levels "similar to other recent senior classes."
11/3/2014	Too many kids quit science because they don't think they're smart	The Atlantic
	But praising their intelligence can make them feel even more insecure. A self-esteem expert offers a way out of the conundrum.
11/3/2014	Risk taking and the teenage brain	NBC News - Education Nation [video]
	The neural networks in the brain that will ultimately guide your child’s self-control and goal-directed behavior are called executive functions. These circuits are located in the prefrontal cortex, which is the last part of the brain to mature.
11/2/2014	A Collection Of Clues To America's Educational Past	NPR
	The new collection spans more than two centuries — the oldest item is something called a "hornbook": a wooden paddle no larger than an adult hand, used by children in the 18th century as their first reading experience.
11/1/2014	Butterflies in the hallway	EdTrust
	The 17-year story of a dropout.
11/1/2014	Comprehensive Educator Effectiveness Models That Work: Impact of TAP System on Student Achievement in Louisiana	NIET [download]
	Schools using Louisiana's TAP system, which aims to improve teaching through multiple classroom observations, coaching and merit pay, outperform similar schools on state tests.
11/1/2014	Improving the health, safety, and well-being of young adults	Insitute of Medicine, National Research Council
	Young adults are moving out of the services and systems that supported them as children and adolescents, but adult services and systems--for example, the adult health care system, the labor market, and the justice system--may not be well suited to supporting their needs.
11/1/2014	New on campus: The 3-year degree	Wall Street Journal
	Students Can Cut College Costs, Get Out Sooner, but Some Regret Compromises
10/31/2014	Education study finds in favour of traditional teaching styles	The Guardian (UK)
	Report from Sutton Trust and Durham University says way that pupils learn ‘remains a mysterious subject’
10/31/2014	Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014	Babson Survey Research Group
	Awareness and adoption of open educational resources (OER) has yet to enter the mainstream of higher education. Most faculty remain unaware of OER, and OER is not a driving force for faculty decisions about which educational materials to adopt.
10/31/2014	China: COSA positions as gov-industry bridge	PIE News
	The newly-formed China Overseas Study Association (COSA) is taking strides to position itself as a bridge between China’s government and international education bodies, providing training and building links with international organisations.
10/31/2014	Dutch will offer WWII anniversary scholarships to Canadians	PIE News
	The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has created a scholarship programme for Canadian students to study in the Netherlands in 2015, marking the 70th anniversary of liberation from World War II German occupation in which Canadian soldiers played a significant role.
10/31/2014	Government regulation of Chinese agencies unfil says BOSSA president	PIE News
	He commented that with over 1,000 non-accredited agencies operating in the capital, discerning which are trustworthy is a huge obstacle for both students and foreign institutions.
10/30/2014	Market snapshot: Egypt	ICEF Monitor
	The events of the Arab Spring and subsequent instability have unsurprisingly created more intense interest in study abroad opportunities among the local population. Some data tracking noted a 41% increase in 2012 in applications for programmes in US institutions when compared to the year before.
10/29/2014	Want a top-notch college degree but can't afford it? Head to Germany	CNN Money
	Germany's academic influence isn't to be underestimated. Housing one of the world's oldest universities and counting countless Nobel Laureates as alumni, Germany has brains as well as style.
10/29/2014	7 countries where Americans can study at university, in English, for free	Washington Post
	Since 1985, U.S. college costs have surged by about 500 percent, and tuition fees keep rising. In Germany, they've done the opposite.
10/29/2014	Lies, damned lies, and college admissions	City Journal
	The media should stop ranking schools.
10/29/2014	Allegations of mass SAT cheating delay test scores in China and Korea	TIME
	Students in China and South Korea who took the SAT on Oct. 11 will have their test scores delayed
10/28/2014	India’s supply-demand gap expected to drive international mobility	ICEF Monitor
	Beginning in 2015, “the biggest change in the profile of Indian students aspiring to global education will be the emergence of ‘high fliers’ – those who are academically prepared and more importantly have an ability to pay for their experiences.”
10/27/2014	Millennial international students rely on digital channels and networks	ICEF Monitor
	International Millennials are heavy consumers of online content, and relevant, high-quality content is a key in driving engagement with this prospect group.
10/27/2014	3 lessons from the science of teaching writing	Hechinger Report
	What’s the best way to teach writing? The experts have many answers — and they often contradict each other.
10/27/2014	Code.org Wants to Give an Hour of Code to Every Student	psfk
	It’s hard to believe, but 90% of primary and secondary schools in the US still don’t teach computer science classes.
10/26/2014	An American school immerses itself in all things Chinese	New York Times
	On weekday mornings, a stream of orange buses and private cars from 75 Minnesota postal codes wrap around Yinghua Academy, the first publicly funded Chinese-immersion charter school in the United States, in the middle-class neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis.
10/25/2014	Most autistic people have normal brain anatomy	Discover
	A new paper threatens to turn the world of autism neuroscience upside down. Its title is Anatomical Abnormalities in Autism?, and it claims that, well, there aren’t very many.
10/24/2014	International student mobility and the Ebola outbreak	ICEF Monitor
	“For now, the greatest immediate effect on international academic exchange from the Ebola crisis will probably be a slowdown in the flow of students from the United States and other countries to West Africa.”
10/23/2014	Most students in WI voucher program come from private schools	Minneapolis Star Tribune
	he latest numbers show most students were already in private school before they got the voucher, fueling arguments from opponents that the program is really about subsidizing private school education
10/23/2014	Colorado school district sued for promoting Christian Groups' efforts	Huffington Post
	The lawsuit outlines evidence of officials using their positions as district employees to endorse and fundraise for two evangelical groups, Operation Christmas Child and Adventures in Missions.
10/23/2014	Fooling the emperor: How is creativity misapplied in China?	China-US Focus
	China’s capacity for innovation has become a hot topic for China, the U.S., and the rest of the world today. There is no question that China must innovate its way out of the “middle income trap.” But whether the country – which over the last thirty years has proven to be able to make everything...
10/23/2014	Rethinking vocational high school as a path to college	Marketplace [audio]
	Students in the Biotechnology program at Minuteman [Community College] dissect dogfish. Students in this vocational major go on to careers in fields like biomedical engineering and forensic science. Most of them go to college.
10/22/2014	Child poverty in U.S. at highest point in 20 years	Los Angeles Times
	As the U.S. emerges from the worst recession since the Great Depression, 25% of children don’t have enough food to eat and 7 million kids still don’t have health insurance, the analysis says. Even worse: Five children die daily by firearms, and one dies every seven hours from abuse or neglect.
10/22/2014	Should we steer all students toward a 4-year college education?	New Orleans Times-Picayune
	How do we prepare students for high-demand technical jobs in Louisiana's growing manufacturing and chemical industries, while not shutting the doors for them to pursue a higher level of learning?
10/22/2014	Families flock to Brooklyn for school	Crain's New York Business
	Families are moving in from far and wide to get their kids into the new—and challenging—Basis Independent.
10/22/2014	Russia cancels US-funded FLEX program	PIE News
	Tense relations between the US and Russia have led to the cancellation of the largest US-Russian educational exchange programme after a teenage Russian boy sought asylum in the US on the grounds that he faced persecution at home as a homosexual.
10/22/2014	Women increasingly outpacing men's higher education participation	ICEF Monitor
	In the 1990s, in many parts of the world, female students began switching places with their male counterparts as the most dominant gender in terms of higher education participation.
10/21/2014	How standing desks can help students focus in the classroom	KQED Mind Shift
	Hemingway, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson all stood while they worked. Donald Rumsfeld had a standing desk, and so did Charles Dickens.
10/21/2014	Nation's wealthy places pour private money into public schools	New York Times
	most states now have funding formulas that [try] to equalize public funding between affluent and poor districts. Communities that previously funneled more money to the schools by voting to raise property taxes are now looking for other ways to capture local money.
10/21/2014	Kids know more about tech than teachers? Not so fast.	NBC News
	We all know the stereotype: Mr. Fuddy-Duddy pecks hopelessly at his keyboard while his students are busy programming the next Google in the back of the class.
10/21/2014	Boarding schools (UK) issue Ebola advice	BBC News
	The Boarding Schools Association (UK) has issued guidance on Ebola after some heads asked how to deal with students returning from affected countries.
10/21/2014	Australian state awards 'gap year' prizes to international students	PIE News
	The Australian state of Queensland has awarded five international students the ‘Ultimate Gap Year’ worth AUS$46,000 covering flights, tuition, accommodation, paid internships and AUS$5,000 spending money, following a successful social media competition.
10/21/2014	Better ways to teach teens to drive	Wall Street Journal
	It’s one of the most dreaded rites of child-rearing—teaching a teenager to drive.
10/21/2014	Princeton gets 10X as much taxpayer money per student as publics	The Atlantic
	The government—and thus, taxpayers—give a surprising amount of money to elite private colleges, a lot in the form of tax deductions. Equally hard to see, and perhaps even more lucrative, is that the federal government doesn’t tax the income that universities earn on their endowments.
10/20/2014	U.S. campuses are on edge over Ebola	Inside Higher Ed
	In responding to the Ebola outbreak, colleges and universities are balancing recommended public health practices with the concerns of an anxious or even in cases panicked public.
10/20/2014	More AP courses slated for major overhaul	Hechinger Report
	But will revamp in favor of teaching college critical thinking in high school fuel the Common Core controversy?
10/20/2014	Charter schools borrow at record pace led by Texas	Bloomberg View
	U.S. charter schools are issuing a record amount of municipal debt, with Texas leading the charge as borrowers rated close to junk tap a program that gives their bonds top credit grades.
10/18/2014	Post-election reality will blunt candidates' voucher visions	Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal [op/ed]
	Whoever wins the governor's race, when the crunch comes in creating the state budget next spring, vouchers will be one of the last and hottest issues on the table.
10/17/2014	The big business of high school sports	Marketplace [audio]
	The concern among many officials is that high school players may be exploited at a crucial time in their development.
10/17/2014	To Siri, with love	New York Times
	Obsessed with weather formations, Gus had spent the hour parsing the difference between isolated and scattered thunderstorms — an hour in which, thank God, I didn’t have to discuss them.
10/17/2014	Outbound mobility gathering steam in the Philippines	ICEF Monitor
	The number of Philippine students studying abroad is up sharply in recent years, fuelled by a rapidly growing economy, high levels of youth unemployment, strong outbound migration, and a strengthening field of education agents.
10/17/2014	New research suggests that small schools may help after all	NPR
	The study, by the research group MDRC, compares the academic outcomes of students in the small schools with a control group of students who sought admission, lost a lottery, and enrolled in other New York City high schools.
10/17/2014	New tactics needed to tap African demand	PIE News
	Africa is a market hungry for quality education but many destination countries have been slow to react to demand. Leveraging equal partnerships in country and catering for a local student group is a good way to go.
10/17/2014	School discipline: Is this working?	NPR [audio]
	Stories of schools struggling with what to do with misbehaving kids. There's no general agreement about what teachers should do to discipline kids. And there's evidence that some of the most popular punishments actually may harm kids.
10/16/2014	'The Bell Curve' 20 years later	AEIdeas
	October marks the 20th anniversary of “The Bell Curve,” the influential and controversial book by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein. Here, Murray answers a few questions about the predictions, controversy, and legacy of his book.
10/16/2014	Why Germany is so much better at training its workers	The Atlantic
	America rarely uses an apprenticeship model to teach young people a trade. Could such a system help the unemployed?
10/16/2014	Harvard is No. 438 in these rankings	Yahoo! Finance [video]
	Montana Tech is the No. 1 school in a new “social mobility index” generated by CollegeNet, a higher-education technology company, and Payscale, a compensation-data firm.
10/15/2014	What happens when teachers run the school?	WNYC
	teachers make decisions on everything from field trips and curriculum to who gets hired and how the school is structured
10/15/2014	Pan-Canadian Academic Program Delivers Good News on Science	Education News
	This year’s Pan-Canadian Academic Program found that 91% of students in the country perform at or above their grade level in the area of science.
10/15/2014	NYC issues Ebola memo to schools	School Book
	The memo says any student who recently returned from West Africa and develops fever within 21 days should see the school nurse, and if there isn't one, the student should stay in a private room until a parent arrives.
10/15/2014	Ebola could test college commitments to international education exchange	Washington Post
	Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has actually been cited as a public health model in the crisis. Experts say the virus appears to be contained there after claiming eight lives.
10/15/2014	When women become men at Wellesley	New York Times
	A small but increasing number of students at colleges like Wellesley do not identify as women, raising the question of what it means to be a "women's college."
10/14/2014	Number of outbound German students up sharply in recent years	ICEF Monitor
	The number of German students enrolled outside of Germany has increased by nearly 400% over the last two decades, from 34,000 in 1991 to 134,000 in 2011.
10/13/2014	Web-era trade schools feeding a need for code	New York Times
	A new educational institution, the coding boot camp, is quietly emerging as the vocational school for the digital age, devoted to creating software developers.
10/13/2014	A bit of college can be worse than none at all	Wall Street Journal
	Racking Up Debt, Failing to Earn a Degree Leaves Many Young People in the Lurch
10/13/2014	Highly educated, unemployed, and tumbling down the ladder	CNBC [video]
	In the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of jobs these days, even an advanced degree can't protect some Americans from tumbling down the economic ladder.
10/12/2014	A cure for hyper-parenting	New York Times [op/ed]
	In Norway “we have brats, child kings, and many of us suffer from hyper-parenting. We’re spoiling them. The French demand more of their kids, and this could be an inspiration to us.”
10/12/2014	America's most challenging private high schools	Washington Post
	The index score is the number of college-level tests given at a school in the previous year divided by the number of graduates. Also noted are the percentage of students who come from families that qualify for lunch subsidies and the percentage of graduates who passed college-level courses.
10/12/2014	The American who wrote Britain's latest teaching bible	The Guardian (UK)
	Doug Lemov’s 49 classroom tips are required reading for many new teachers, but he is not universally popular.
10/11/2014	Mike Rowe on the value of a strong work ethic	Reason
	Mike Rowe’s new program, “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” premiered this week. “In each episode, Rowe visits unique individuals and joins them in their respective undertakings, paying tribute to innovators, do-gooders, entrepreneurs, collectors, fanatics–people who simply have to do it."
10/11/2014	A memoir of gratificaton: Deesire delayed	The Economist
	Walter Mischel on the test that became his life’s work
10/11/2014	Education reform (U.K.): The new school rules	The Economist
	The academies programme has transformed England's educational landscape
10/10/2014	As apprentices in classroom, teachers learn what works	New York Times
	The idea is that teachers, like doctors in medical residencies, need to practice repeatedly with experienced supervisors before they can be responsible for classes on their own.
10/10/2014	A veteran teacher shadows 2 students for 2 days and learns something	Grant Wiggin's blog
	I waited fourteen years to do something that I should have done my first year of teaching: shadow a student for a day. It was so eye-opening that I wish I could go back to every class of students I ever had right now and change a minimum of ten things.
10/9/2014	The paperless classroom is coming	TIME
	A national push to get a computer into each student's hands will upend the way American children are taught
10/9/2014	Why Top Students Are Being Rejected by In-State Schools	Yahoo! Finance
	Many in-state colleges and universities are accepting fewer in-state applicants into their freshman classes. Why?
10/9/2014	Why do Chinese students do so well on school tests?	BBC News
	If this reflects the success of Asian school systems, it does not explain why second-generation Chinese pupils are so successful academically when they have migrated to other countries.
10/8/2014	How safe is the artificial turf your child plays on?	NBC News
	her team collects paper cups of crumb rubber on each field they play on, handing them off to her so she can ship the granules to a lab to be tested
10/8/2014	Borrowing rates for wealthy soar	Inside Higher Ed
	The study looked only at the debt levels of dependent students who completed a bachelor’s degree. It did not analyze students who took out loans but failed to complete their degree.
10/8/2014	Keyword research: Matching intent with results	ICEF Monitor
	A prospective student is searching online, trying to find the right school, but how is he searching? What terms does he use and how can you find and engage with this prospective student? More to the point, how can he find you?
10/8/2014	Delaware K-12 and school choice survey	Friedman Foundation
	Nearly 60 percent of Delaware voters said they support an educational system that uses education savings accounts.
10/8/2014	To fill teacher vacancies, school districts turn to unexpected source	Yahoo! News
	Those teachers “are being placed primarily in hard-to-staff inner-city or very rural schools teaching the hard-to-fill disciplines of math, science and special education.”
10/8/2014	New standards seek to measure what students actually know	Hechinger Report
	The Degree Qualifications Profile specifies what students should know and be able to do at every level of their higher educations—what a bachelor’s or master’s degree actually represents, in other words—rather than simply relying on how many hours they’ve sat through how many courses.
10/7/2014	The secret sauce of college admissions	Huffington Post
	applications to private colleges rose 70 percent from 2004 to last year but the annual total of new high school graduates rose only five percent [creating] a perception of far greater selectivity than actually occurred at many colleges and universities
10/7/2014	How Tuition Tracker helps kids compare colleges - and other tips for overwhelmed parents	Hechinger Report
	...showing what students really pay for college – based on income – instead of what the so-called sticker price you can read on any website says.
10/7/2014	Is football safe for children?	PBS Frontline [video]
	“Your child could develop a brain injury as a result of playing football,” NFL Hall of Famer Harry Carson
10/7/2014	Lessons from "The Smartest Kids in the World"	Houston Public Media [video]
	The data is clear: Finland, South Korea and Poland are outpacing the United States in grade-school education. Many kids there can make complex arguments and solve challenging problems. Journalist Amanda Ripley tells what it’s like to be a student in one of these education superpowers in her book.
10/6/2014	Teaching math to people who think they hate it	The Atlantic
	A popular Cornell professor tries to help language-arts types learn how to "make math" instead of just studying it.
10/6/2014	The Global Search for Education: Do You Have Global Skills?	CMRubin World [blog]
	Why are global skills even more critical in today’s world? What does the latest research tell us? Why are Canadian parents, educators and employers taking these skills very seriously?
10/6/2014	Academics and 'soft skills' are not an either/or	Minneapolis Post
	It’s common at the moment to draw a distinction between academic abilities and so-called soft skills. One, the conventional wisdom has it, is measured by tests, while the other reveals itself in life experiences.
10/6/2014	Why politicians need historians	The Guardian (UK)
	Few policymakers today seem interested in lessons from the past. Their short-termism will fail to tackle the new ‘megatrends’
10/5/2014	Film demystifies and destigmatizes dyslexia	USA Today
	Dislecksia: The Movie highlights success stories of celebrities and business leaders who struggled with dyslexia.
10/4/2014	Scientific curiosity: Questions, questions	The Economist
	What if—serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions
10/3/2014	Canada: Language providers adapt to ISP co-op curtailment	PIE News
	many of Canada’s language teaching institutions have repositioned themselves to adapt to new regulations banning them from offering “co-op” programmes that combine tuition with professional internships
10/3/2014	Why textbook prices keep climbing	NPR [audio]
	Prices of new textbooks have been going up like crazy. Faster than clothing, food, cars, and even healthcare.
10/2/2014	Times Higher Ed rankings	PIE News
	A surprising 60% of US universities have slipped in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings with publicly funded universities suffering the worst losses. Asian institutions meanwhile are gaining ground, now with 24 of the world’s top 200 universities.
10/2/2014	Inspire students for future in manufacturing technology	Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal [op/ed]
	To fill these manufacturing jobs, educators and industry leaders must collaborate to introduce young people to the high-tech, high-skilled world of modern manufacturing and the STEM subjects that will prepare them to succeed.
10/2/2014	Translator Keyboard For iOS Makes Writing Foreign Missives A Breeze	The Crunch Network
	The Translator Keyboard for iOS 8 can translate what you’ve typed into one of 44 other languages — including French, Spanish and even Welsh. Beth annisgwyl!
10/2/2014	Four trends in tech for teachers	The Guardian (UK)
	There is more computing power in the average smartphone than the spacecraft that sent the first man to the moon.
10/2/2014	Computers are making us dumb	Yahoo! Finance
	Carr argues that we also put too much faith into automation, and give “undue weight,” to information provided by computers. Not using human judgment to double check the work of programs and algorithms can lead to major market crashes like the flash crash in 2010.
10/2/2014	LinkedIn Ranks Colleges on Their Graduates' "Desirable" Jobs	Huffington Post
	LinkedIn has 300 million members worldwide, through whose information it has sifted to determine which institutions’ graduates get jobs at the most desirable companies with the lowest turnover, providing it to prospective students in searchable form and as a ranking.
10/2/2014	How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math	Nautilus
	Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need.
10/1/2014	Education Russia cancels FLEX student exchange with the US	Deutshe Well
	Russian authories have scrapped a longstanding student exchange program formed to foster understanding with its Cold War nemesis. The Kremlin claims that the US used the program to get around a Russian adoption law.
10/1/2014	History of the English Language in one chart	Triangulations [blog]
	To aid in illustrating those coming posts, I decided to make this graphic to capture, in one picture, the information I found scattered over several diagrams and sites. Diagrams are great memory tools for me, and I hope this helps some of you.
10/1/2014	Bridging the digital divide: Recruiting Millennial students	WES
	A study from Pew Research Center highlights that Millennials are twice as likely as Gen X to cite the use of technology as an attribute that distinguishes them from other generations.
10/1/2014	The Americas	WES
	Globe’s Stock of Internationally Mobile Students Continues to Grow and Diversify
10/1/2014	Russia halts student exchange program with the U.S.	ABC News
	he Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program has brought more than 8,000 Russian high school students to the United States to live with American families, attend high school and experience community life.
10/1/2014	School spending by affluent is widening wealth gap	Yahoo! Finance
	Their average education spending per child jumped 35 percent to $5,210 a year during the recession compared with the two preceding years — and they sustained that faster pace through the recovery. For the remaining 90 percent of households, such spending averaged around a flat $1,000
10/1/2014	The business of library automation	District Administration
	software frees librarians to focus on digital literacy
10/1/2014	The future of private education	CAPE Outlook [download]
	several leaders of private education recently met for a panel discussion at the National Private School Leadership Conference, sponsored by the Office of Non-Public Education (ONPE) at the U.S. Department of Education on September 22
9/30/2014	Western universities expanding their joint ventures in China	ICEF Monitor
	These new partnerships are notable in that we see top-ranked foreign institutions linking up with leading universities in China, with the resulting programmes fully approved by the Ministry of Education.
9/30/2014	Reports on college crime are deceeptively inaccurate	Columbus Dispatch
	weaknesses in the law allow for thousands of off-campus crimes involving students to go unreported, and the Education Department does little to monitor or enforce compliance with the law — even when colleges report numbers that seem questionable
9/30/2014	Kids and screen time: Cutting through the static	NPR [audio]
	He's talking about the laundry list of athletes and actors these kids have seen, of late, making fools of themselves using social media.
9/30/2014	Study contends voucher programs save money, benefit public schools	Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal
	But the study's more provocative point is that the savings from those voucher programs in Milwaukee and other cities are passively plowed back into public schools or other public programs.
9/30/2014	Are Ivy League schools overrated?	Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science [blog]
	I don’t think there’s any question that selection bias, networking opportunities and halo effects play a large role here. What if they account for most of the benefit of attending an elite school for most students?
9/30/2014	Is Google making us stupid?	The Atlantic [review]
	Outsourcing menial tasks to machines can seem liberating, but it may be robbing a whole generation of certain basic mental abilities.
9/29/2014	Kansas officials ready private school tuition program	Lawrence Journal-World
	A Kansas education official says a new tax-credit system to fund private school tuition for low-income students is on track to start in January.
9/29/2014	Facing money and enrollment squeeze, more women's colleges go coed	Hechinger Report
	In the last two years, at least three other women’s colleges have gone coed, or announced that they will.
9/29/2014	#Recruitment: Twitter for international education marketing	ICEF Monitor
	According to Forbes, the top 10 countries on Twitter, in terms of number of users, are: US; UK; Canada; Australia; Brazil; Germany; Netherlands; France; India; South Africa.
9/29/2014	Florida Board of Ed approves rules for newest voucher program	Tampa Bay Times
	The department is wasting no time. Administrator Adam Miller told the State Board that more than 3,000 families had already applied, and the first 650 scholarships were set to be distributed "in the next couple of days."
9/29/2014	Why are Harvard grads still flocking to Wall Street?	Washington Monthly
	Students from elite colleges march off to jobs at the big banks and consulting firms less by choice than because of a rigged recruiting game that the schools themselves have helped to create.
9/29/2014	Public school teachers earn 21% more than private	Bureau of Labor Statistics [download]
	from 1996 to 2012, teachers earned less than other college graduates, but the gap was smaller for public school teachers and smaller still if they had union representation; moreover, the mitigating effects are stronger for female than male teachers.
9/28/2014	Immigrant experience: Schools tackle needs of students from other countries	Cedar Rapids Gazette
	Iowa City schools have 900 students in ELL programs this year compared to 211 in 2009. In Cedar Rapids schools’ ELL programs, there are 642 students compared to 308 students in 2009.
9/28/2014	Synthetic drug Cloud 9 linked to hospitalizations	NBC News [video]
	Cloud 9 is a legal drug that’s become popular in some high schools, leaving parents wondering how to combat it.
9/27/2014	Higher education's aristocrats	Jacobin
	While tuition increases continue to burden students, a small group of administrators are getting rich.
9/27/2014	Colleges make it easier for students to show, not tell, in their applications	New York Times
	“The video is also susceptible to bias in scoring, for example, with regard to the attractiveness, ethnicity, weight or other perceived physical features of the video maker.”
9/26/2014	Wy we need a new college admissions strategy	New America Foundation
	Several studies have shown that beneficiaries of diversity-based admissions policies typically hail from the most well-educated and economically successful segments of “diverse” communities.
9/26/2014	The six paths of the typical US college graduate--and why they're all wrong	Quartz
	There are currently six prominent paths for achievement-minded recent college graduates: financial services, management consulting, law school (still), med school, grad school/academia, and Teach for America.
9/26/2014	Student course evaluations get an F	NPR [audio]
	course evaluations may in fact measure, and thus motivate, the opposite of good teaching
9/26/2014	National Blue Ribbon Schools application	CAPE
	The program recognizes schools that meet either of two criteria: Exemplary High performing schools and Exemplary Achievement Gap Closing Schools.
9/26/2014	The school with no rules that teaches the unteachable	The Guardian (UK)
	Documentary goes beyond the school gates at Ian Mikardo high school, where boys deemed unteachable are making a fresh start.
9/26/2014	Standing desks are coming to schools	Fast Company
	Increasing numbers of adults are throwing away their office chairs in favor of standing desks, believing that staying on their feet during working hours will improve their health. Should we be encouraging kids to do the same?
9/25/2014	Gap years	IIE Networker
	developing international experiential learners
9/25/2014	Shoot the elephant: Low-level disruption in the classroom	tes connect [blog]
	Behaviour. It's always been about behaviour. From the day I stepped into a classroom, the biggest obstacle I faced in getting students from average A to brilliant B was how they behaved, or didn't.
9/25/2014	NACAC changes code of conduct on agents	ICEF Monitor
	The prohibition on education agents was originally enshrined in NACAC’s Code of Ethics, now known as the Statement of Principles of Good Practice (SPGP), a document that effectively codifies the ethics and standards of conduct for the association.
9/25/2014	The source of bad writing	Wall Street Journal
	The 'curse of knowledge' leads writers to assume their readers know everything they know
9/25/2014	Michelle Chen: Are New York’s Sex Workers Getting Their Fair Day in Court? The Return of ‘Homeland’: Illusion, Reality and Claire Da	The Nation
	Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education. What does this mean for public school students?
9/25/2014	The blown opportunity	Inside Higher Ed
	one of the most important is that where you went to college matters less to your work life and well-being after graduation than how you went to college
9/24/2014	How computer coding can increase engagement, learning	Hechinger Report [blog]
	They are participants in the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software project, known as HFOSS—or, more grandly, Software for Humanity, helping to feed needy people in Haiti, or to deliver supplies to earthquake survivors in China, or to manage the medical care of malaria victims in Rwanda.
9/24/2014	11 things only parents of boys understand	Huffington Post
	There was peace and love and joy and... and... peace. Then, I had boys. It seems harsh to say that my vision of parenthood went straight to hell, but... well, my vision of parenthood went straight to hell.
9/24/2014	How do you look to prospective students online?	ICEF Monitor
	What should institutions be doing to make their websites more helpful to international students (and thus drive the conversions to enquiries and applications)?
9/24/2014	'Tie Tuesday' making positive impact on students	NBC News [video]
	A Florida grade school is seeing positive improvements in test scores by starting with how students see themselves.
9/24/2014	Bill Clinton: Charter schools must be held to the 'original bargain'	Huffington Post
	"...if they weren't outperforming the public model, they weren't supposed to get their charter renewed," he said.
9/24/2014	US awards $3.9 million to support underrepresented in gifted programs	US Education Department
	[yes, non-profit organizations are eligible] ...$3.9 million to partnerships with postsecondary institutions that focus on increasing the number of minority and other underrepresented students in gifted and talented programs.
9/24/2014	New report reveals surprising facts about Hispanic children and teens	Washington Post
	Twenty-one percent of Hispanic eighth graders were proficient in federally administered math tests in 2013, a leap from eight percent in 2000. The on-time high school graduation rate for Hispanics also has surged, and college enrollment is at an all-time high.
9/23/2014	Why students should take the lead in parent-teacher conferences	KQED Mind Shift
	“I always tell them, ‘Own what you got’ ”. Only after students spend a moment to recognize what they’re doing right does she encourage them to tackle the challenges, with the following questions: “What have I not done well?” and “How can I improve this?”
9/23/2014	New surveys compare relative costs of study abroad and parents' perception of educational quality	ICEF Monitor
	Overall, however, the US remains highly regarded by parents as a high-quality education destination, with 51% of parents ranking it among their top three countries for quality followed by the UK (38%), Germany (27%), Australia (25%), and Japan (25%).
9/23/2014	Study abroad graduates less likely to be unemployed later	PIE News
	The Erasmus Impact Study, which drew on feedback from nearly 80,000 respondents including students and businesses, showed that graduates who have studied or trained abroad had a 23% lower unemployment rate five years after graduation than those who had not.
9/23/2014	For high school football coaches and fans, a new digital blitz	New York Times
	“Lots of high schools in this country now spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, even a million, on football, over $3 billion nationally wouldn’t surprise me.”
9/23/2014	Number Of Homeless Students In America Is Rising Rapidly	Huffington Post
	three-quarters live "doubled up" -- that is, with friends or extended family members -- while 16 percent live in shelters; 3 percent live without shelter; and about 6 percent are "unaccompanied," meaning they live completely on their own without parents or other family members
9/22/2014	Jumping off the merit aid merry-go-round	EdCentral
	Besides the most elite schools, nearly all private nonprofit colleges provide merit aid or tuition discounts — often to the detriment of the low-income students they enroll.
9/22/2014	New $15 million global learning X Prize	Washington Post
	what’s needed is a new way of thinking about education if we plan to educate tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of children: “Traditional models of learning are not scalable,”
9/22/2014	Common application ends holistic admission requirement	Inside Higher Ed
	The Common Application [will] no longer require member colleges to use "holistic" admissions in which candidates are reviewed in ways that go beyond numbers, most typically with essays.
9/21/2014	Reporting of school bullies goes high tech	Kansas City Star
	Kids are logging on in Belton, administrators said. Since classes began in mid-August, middle-schoolers have submitted reports alleging 12 bullying instances.
9/19/2014	The case for delayed adulthood	New York Times
	Today’s 25-year-olds, compared with their parents’ generation at the same age, are twice as likely to still be students, only half as likely to be married and 50 percent more likely to be receiving financial assistance from their parents.
9/19/2014	Colleges rely on data in hunt for students	Inside Higher Ed
	The search for students involves a web of data points, formulas and consulting firms that perhaps few parents and students are aware of.
9/18/2014	Why girls get better grades than boys do	The Atlantic
	Across all grade levels and academic subjects, girls earn higher grades than boys. Not just in the United States, but across the globe, in countries as far afield as Norway and Hong Kong.
9/18/2014	Teachers who leave the classroom happier in new jobs	Huffington Post
	Over half of [public school] teachers who recently left the classroom reported better working conditions and more autonomy at their new jobs, according to a survey released this month.
9/18/2014	Should students have to wear school uniforms?	ProCon.org
	Proponents say that school uniforms make schools safer for students, create a "level playing field" that reduces socioeconomic disparities, and encourage children to focus on their studies rather than their clothes.
9/17/2014	Boston becomes first city to require safety measures for college athletes	CBS Sports
	...including requiring a neurotrauma consultant at every Division I football, ice hockey and men's lacrosse event to monitor head, neck and spine injuries.
9/17/2014	100 facts every high school student should know	Civics Education Initiative
	Every new immigrant to the United States must pass this test to become a citizen. And 92 percent do. But when high school students in Arizona and Oklahoma were tested, less than 5 percent could pass.
9/17/2014	Latest games are finally making learning more fun	Hechinger Report
	Unlike previous educational games that functioned like glorified worksheets or tech-enhanced tests, the latest game developers say they are closer to figuring out how to unlock kids’ passion for gaming.
9/17/2014	Computer tutors that can read students' emotions	Hechinger Report
	But accurately detecting the learners’ feelings is only the first step. The computer then has to respond to such feelings in a way that promotes learning.
9/17/2014	Leaving home, but not the folks	New York Times
	Towns with boarding schools are welcoming parents as home buyers or renters while their children attend the schools. Nancy Garcia Ponte and her daughter, Ally, at the Newport, R.I., apartment Ms. Garcia Ponte rented when Ally was accepted at the nearby Portsmouth Abbey School.
9/17/2014	State, national education leaders make AP exam changes	Houston Chronicle
	The State Board of Education on Wednesday took the first step in requiring Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate teachers to conform to state curriculum standards known as the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS.
9/17/2014	UC proposes systemwide plan to fight sexual misconduct	Los Angeles Times
	University of California officials unveiled a systemwide plan Wednesday, calling for mandatory training for all students, staff and faculty, improved support for victims and more thorough investigations.
9/17/2014	How three-year degrees can cut the cost of college	Progressive Policy Institute
	But there are cracks in the fiscal foundations of higher education, and they are growing wider. Like a water leak in the ceiling, the problem is getting bigger and the damage is getting more expensive to fix each year we do not act.
9/17/2014	New Online Services Aim to Democratize Admissions Counseling	Chronicle of Higher Education
	Websites offering online college-admission counseling have proliferated in the past few years, with services whose prices range from free to thousands of dollars. This week saw the launch of two new options that claim to make low-cost resources more widely available.
9/17/2014	Top 20 colleges with most billionaire alumni	CNN Money
	According to Wealth-X and UBS's "Billionaire Census," the University of Pennsylvania tops the list of 20 schools with the highest number of billionaire alumni. One surprising fact: 35% of billionaires didn't graduate from college.
9/17/2014	OECD releases detailed study of global education trends	ICEF Monitor
	The publication documents enormous growth in the numbers of students studying abroad from 1975 to 2012. Moreover, it reveals new trends in mobility, including the growing importance of intra-regional mobility and new or emerging destinations for international students.
9/16/2014	Wanted: Long-term thinking about technology and education	Scientific American
	Although adaptive learning technologies are still in their infancy, they are already displaying huge promise. The idea is to tailor the teaching process to each student's progress.
9/16/2014	Market snapshot: Kazakhstan	ICEF Monitor
	Strong economic growth and market liberalisation have placed Kazakhstan on the radar of international educators for some time now.
9/16/2014	Wealthy L.A. schools' vaccination rates are as low as South Sudan's	The Atlantic
	Hollywood parents say not vaccinating makes "instinctive" sense. Now their kids have whooping cough.
9/15/2014	The best language for math	Wall Street Journal
	Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math concepts more clearly than English, making it easier for small children to learn counting and arithmetic, research shows.
9/15/2014	Minors fleeing Central America face shaky transition to U.S. schools	NBC News
	“They’re excited to learn, so [the challenges of] school don’t phase them,” Skok said. “What they worry about most is being deported. They don’t want to have to leave.”
9/15/2014	QS World University Rankings	The Guardian (UK)
	The top 200 universities in the world, as ranked by higher education data specialists QS
9/15/2014	College admission officers more supportive of SAT changes than students	Kaplan Test Prep
	Big SAT changes in store for the class of 2017 and beyond: the addition of historical reading passages, shifting of the essay from mandatory to optional, reverting back to a 1600 point scoring scale, no wrong answer penalty, no more fill-in-the-blank vocabulary, and a computer-based option.
9/15/2014	What US schools can learn from Poland	Hechinger Report
	On the most recent 2012 international tests of 15-year-olds, known as PISA tests, Poland ranked 9th in reading and 14th in math among all 65 countries and sub-regions that took the test. It used to be on par with the United States, a mediocre performer.
9/13/2014	International students save N.C. academy from shutdown	NPR [audio]
	Oak Ridge Military Academy looked as if it was going to close a few years ago because of low enrollment. The academy turned things around by appealing to international students, from Asia to Africa.
9/12/2014	The economic guide to picking a college major	538 Economics
	The typical recent college graduate with a full-time job earns about $36,000 a year. But graduates with a degree in petroleum engineering, the highest-paying major, earned a whopping $110,000. That’s five times the $22,000 median salary at the bottom end of the spectrum, library science.
9/11/2014	Education 25 years in the future	CNBC [video]
	CNBC's Sharon Epperson, and Sebastian Thrun, Udacity co-founder & CEO, take a look at how technology is likely to revolutionize the educational landscape.
9/11/2014	Cyberbullying increases as students get older	Education Week Teacher
	The research considers the fact that students can be both perpetrators and victims of bullying over time, a reality born out by other studies; children cannot just be divided into two groups of those who bully and those who are bullied.
9/11/2014	Finally, some explanation on the genetic basis of intelligence	Real Clear Education
	Either intelligence is rooted in the activity of a huge number of genes, or it could be that any trait as abstract and removed from the actual work of genetic activity would have footings in a similarly large number of genes.
9/11/2014	6 ways to make college more affordable	American Action Forum
	Among the tips: Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate credits are worth it; borrow less than you think you need; and don't borrow unsubsidized loans if you don't have to.
9/11/2014	Intro to Computer Science overtakes Economics as Harvard's most popular course	Fortune
	with almost 820 undergraduates enrolled this semester; that total is the highest in the three decades the course has been offered and it’s the biggest class offered at Harvard in at least a decade.
9/11/2014	How to diversify teaching: Room for debate	New York Times [op/ed]
	How can the teaching profession become more diverse in terms of gender and race or ethnicity?
9/11/2014	Disruptive technology is changing how kids learn	TIME
	Research show new tools can make kids more engaged and more creative
9/10/2014	No need to teach girls differently ...online	Slate, Hechinger Report
	Changing the design of a virtual classroom — from one that conveyed computer science stereotypes to one that did not — “significantly increased women’s interest and anticipated success in computer science.”
9/10/2014	Why the big history project funded by Bill Gates is alarming	The Guardian (UK) [op/ed]
	As UK state schools increasingly follow the US model, someone with no background in education could disrupt the learning of thousands of children
9/10/2014	Online education company edX offering free high school courses	Boston Globe
	Edx plans to unveil its first free classes for younger students Wednesday. The 26 high school courses were created by 14 institutions — including MIT, Georgetown and Rice universities, the University of California Berkeley, Boston University, Wellesley College, and Weston Public High School.
9/9/2014	German-style training for American factory workers	Wall Street Journal
	Robotics Company Festo Sees 'Potential,' Expands Its Vocational Education Division in the U.S.
9/9/2014	Catholic Classical Schools Quickly Growing in Demand	Catholic Education Daily
	Classical education is structured around the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), and also includes study of the liberal arts (literature, poetry, drama, philosophy,history, art and languages).
9/9/2014	Teachers' strike in British Columbia & international student programmes	ICEF Monitor
	The labour action by BC’s public school teachers – a full-blown strike which began on 17 June 2014 following a series of rotating walkouts – has so far led to the cancellation of a number of summer programmes and has put the start of the 2014/15 school year into question.
9/8/2014	The lead hazaard in schools that just won't go away	Huffington Post
	It was in the chips of lead paint on her deck steps, in dust rubbed free from door and window frames, in the glazes on her students' thrift-store mugs. The rug itself was likely a reservoir for lead chips and dust tracked around on students' shoes.
9/8/2014	'Civil' Wars	Inside Higher Ed
	The American Association of University Professors has been understandably wary of the use of “civility,” particularly in matters of appointments and tenure. Like its close associate “collegiality,” it is open to multiple interpretations and may be put to various ignoble purposes.
9/5/2014	International student retention and success: A comparative perspective	WES
	As the competition to enroll more international students grows, not only within, but between countries, the opportunity for cross-learning is enhanced. The focus of this research brief is to look into the interdependency of recruitment and retention practices from a global, comparative perspective.
9/5/2014	Ten websites in China your admission department should know	ICEF Monitor
	As you know, the Chinese government blocks many Western social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube so that only domestic services – such as Youku, Sina Weibo, Renren, and WeChat – are left for you to work with.
9/5/2014	Malawi app 'teaches pupils 18 months of math in 6 weeks'	BBC News
	They submitted it to a randomised control trial, testing it against other teaching apps and against no app at all. The Onebillion app improved the children's maths knowledge to a much greater extent than the alternative apps, and produced considerably better results than the average Malawian class.
9/5/2014	A manly old guide to the Ivy League	Chronicle of Higher Education
	In 1969, three recent graduates of Harvard U. shared their observations with the hoi polloi. It’s a history lesson, and a hoot.
9/4/2014	Why flunking exams is actually a good thing	New York Times
	Across a variety of experiments, psychologists have found that, in some circumstances, wrong answers on a pretest aren’t merely useless guesses. Rather, the attempts themselves change how we think about and store the information contained in the questions.
9/4/2014	Why colleges with a distinct focus have a hidden advantage	New York Times [op/ed]
	When you analyze colleges and universities based on where applicants are most likely to choose to attend when admitted to multiple schools, some of the institutions that perform the best are very much not for everyone.
9/4/2014	The course is dead; Long life the course	Inside Higher Ed
	MIT has spent over a year investigating the question of the future of residential education and has begun to systematically explore, among other things, the “modularization” of the curriculum into smaller Lego-like units that can be taken apart and put together in a myriad of ways.
9/4/2014	Coding at school: A parent's guide to England's new computing curriculum	The Guardian (UK)
	From the start of the new term, children as young as five will be learning programming skills in the classroom.
9/4/2014	The trouble with Harvard	The New Republic
	The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it.
9/3/2014	The agent question: New data has the answer	ICEF Monitor
	“There is simply no evidence of widespread dissatisfaction on the part of students or institutions with respect to agent use. Indeed, student overall satisfaction with agents is similar to student satisfaction with institutions.”
9/2/2014	CAPE Outlook	Council for American Private Education
	Principals' Working Conditions, Public & Private; A Sobering Take on Charters and Choice; Surprises in Data on Housing and Schooling; Americans Grade Private Schools; Living Free in New Hampshire; Where Do International Students Go to School?
9/2/2014	Visa Program Struggles to Track Missing Foreign Students	ABC News
	The Department of Homeland Security has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who entered the United States on student visas, overstayed their welcome, and essentially vanished -- exploiting a security gap that was supposed to be fixed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
9/2/2014	The good in standardized testing	Boston Review
	Without standardized testing the students’ families had no way of knowing that eighth graders on the other side of town were well past working on multisyllabic words or improper fractions. They had no way of knowing that their hardworking, solid-GPA kids were already far behind.
9/2/2014	Key differences between Indian and Chinese students studying in the US	Quartz
	Most Indian students arrive in the US to complete a graduate degree. Very few—only 10%—attend an undergraduate or doctoral program. 44% of Chinese students head to the US as soon as they finish secondary school and pursue research more often than Indian students.
9/1/2014	Complex care	District Administration
	An inside look at managing the growing role of school nurses.
9/1/2014	Equipment leasing and rental	District Administration
	A strategic guide to cost-effective ways to acquire technology.
9/1/2014	Bulking up with booster clubs	District Administration
	How to harness the power of volunteer groups that bring vital funds to athletics.
9/1/2014	Supercharge the SIS	District Administration
	New systems do far more than track grades and schedules.
9/1/2014	Surging demand provides new opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa	ICEF Monitor
	A report published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics charts strong growth in mobility and demand among higher education students in sub-Saharan Africa. The report comes at a time of increased higher education activity and greater collaboration across the continent.
9/1/2014	The new history wars	New York Times [op/ed]
	If we want students to understand what is happening in Missouri or the Middle East, they need an unvarnished picture of our past and the skills to understand and interpret that picture. People don’t kill one another just for recreation. They have reasons. Those reasons are usually historical.
8/31/2014	Martin Haberman: 1932-2012	American Stories Continuum
	We met on three different occasions in his home. The following interview is an amalgam of all three. On all three occasions, he offers me ginger ale and Fig Newtons. He tells me how and why he became a teacher educator and why it became a lifelong commitment.
8/30/2014	China complains SAT may impose American values on its best students	Los Angeles Times
	"Including content from America's founding documents in a revised U.S. college entry exam has drawn attention in China, with worries the materials may impose the American values system on students,” China’s official New China News Agency said last week.
8/29/2014	New Zealand: Strongest start-of-year enrolments ever	PIE News
	New Zealand has experienced its strongest ever start to the year with an 8% increase in international student enrolments resulting in an additional 5,100 students compared to the same January to April period last year.
8/29/2014	How economically diverse is a college? New York Times ranking may tell.	Chronicle of Higher Education
	[It] is likely to please opponents of the rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Critics argue that they contribute to a lack of socioeconomic diversity, by creating incentives for colleges to spend on things like bigger faculty salaries and smaller class sizes, rather than student financial aid.
8/29/2014	Services for international students with disabilities	ICEF Monitor
	Resources such as the National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange (NCDE) offers free advice and support, and referrals for more specialised information. In particular, it offers online resources for students coming to the US, as well as tips for Americans going abroad.
8/29/2014	Advice for schools and students about Ebola in West Africa	Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
	Advice for Students Arriving to US Campuses: What are the special recommendations for student health centers? Should schools isolate or quarantine students who have recently returned to the US? What can schools do to keep people on campus safe from Ebola?
8/29/2014	The geography of foreign study in US higher education	Brookings Institution
	Most foreign students come from large fast-growing cities in emerging markets.
8/29/2014	Twitter co-founder on women in tech: There's a leadership crisis	Yahoo! News [video]
	Boys get Legos for Christmas. Girls get Barbies and get interested in fashion design, while boys get interested in building and creating new things.
8/29/2014	Korea opens up to foreign providers	PIE News
	The initiative also includes measures allowing private schools and academies to issue D-4 (General Training) visas, currently only available to public or higher education institutions.
8/29/2014	Chat with Randall Martin, BCCIE, Canada	PIE News
	British Columbia is one of Canada’s international education success stories. Randall Martin, executive director of the British Columbia Council for International Education (BCCIE) talks about the province’s achievements, goals and how it could be a model for national level activity.
8/29/2014	How are educators and investors faring in rising Africa?	PIE News
	African students accounted for almost 10% of international students in 2010 worldwide according to Campus France, with the ratio of outbound mobile students to domestic students higher than 25% in most countries.
8/28/2014	First time audits of Beijing agencies to be made public	PIE News
	Consumer reports on quality education agencies in Beijing are set to be released by the China Consumer Commission following a first of its kind audit commissioned by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission (BMEC) of the 71 state-licensed education agencies operating in China’s capital.
8/28/2014	Voucher laws across the states	Center for Education Reform [download]
	What if in America we had the freedom to choose our schools? Despite the fact that there has been widespread acceptance and rapid growth in the choices available to families, this central question still remains unanswered for most.
8/28/2014	Let 'em play -- in the Pros	Bloomberg View
	Almost no other profession prohibits child prodigies from being paid for their skills. An 18-year-old can become a professional doctor or lawyer -- or a shortstop or goalie -- but not a point guard or linebacker, at least not in the NBA and NFL.
8/28/2014	Market snapshot: Mongolia	ICEF Monitor
	Mongolia is increasingly on the radar for international recruiters as an emerging market in the region, fueled both by strong economic growth and by the aspirations of its people.
8/27/2014	Bobby Jindal receives renewed support for school voucher program	Huffington Post
	BAEO announced Wednesday that it would join Louisiana families in asking the US. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to dismiss an April ruling that required the voucher program to regularly disclose student data to the federal government.
8/27/2014	Robots to teach in Abu Dhabi school	Gulf News
	Robots and humanoids to take over classrooms at private school.
8/27/2014	A different kind of college ranking	Washington Monthly
	Our rankings have always rejected the idea that expense, luxury, and exclusivity should be held up as the highest values for colleges and students to aspire to. Instead, we ask a different question: What are colleges doing for the country?
8/27/2014	University's Internet policy bans 'political' sites, 'personal social media'	The College Fix
	“I just got settled into my new dorm. Found that the university has adopted a new policy that blocks many of the sites I normally go to. Is this common for a state-run university?” the user wrote.
8/25/2014	How to educate Americans for jobs? Ask the Germans, employers urge	PBS and Hechinger Report
	Two years. That’s how long it takes William Lankin’s fast-growing electrical contracting company to teach new hires with four-year university degrees the tricks of the trade.
8/25/2014	Students: We need coding skills	eSchool News
	A new report reveals that 59 percent of students who do not know how to code would like to learn, while just 23 percent of students actually know how to code. Sixty-one percent of students said they believe coding skills will give them a competitive advantage in the job hunt.
8/25/2014	Docs urge delayed school start times for teens	USA Today
	The nation's largest pediatrician group says delaying the start of high school and middle school classes to 8:30 a.m. or later is "an effective countermeasure to chronic sleep loss" and the "epidemic" of delayed, insufficient, and erratic sleep patterns among the nation's teens.
8/25/2014	Funding hurdle for schools tracking college financial-aid forms	Denver Post
	The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a federal form that students fill out to help the government and colleges determine financial need for grants and scholarships. Eesearch says students who fill out the form are more likely to enroll in college within 12 months.
8/23/2014	Malala Yousafzai: 'People listen to me, but I know that might change'	The Guardian (UK)
	Propelled to global prominence, her campaigns have found support from everyone from the Queen to Angelina Jolie. On her 16th birthday she gave a speech at the UN in New York, where she urged leaders to wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism.
8/22/2014	Never tired of learning	DOME
	“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.” — Deng Xiaoping. China is exporting more than cheap “stuff” to America. Increasingly, the Chinese are sending us their most prized possession: their children.
8/22/2014	BC labour dispute threatens international student intake	PIE News
	“Agents will pursue what they might deem to be more stable destinations – some already have for summer programmes and for a small number of students for the Fall intake”
8/21/2014	NC Judge: Private school vouchers unconstittutional	SF Gate
	The vouchers pay for students to attend privately run K-12 schools that do not have to meet state curriculum requirements, violating the state constitution, Wake County Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood said.
8/21/2014	Educating Students with Disabilities: 'Inclusion' Benefits--Now What?	Real Clear Education
	A new study shows that, for at least one aspect of language development, children with disabilities do indeed benefit from inclusion—but not in a way profoundly different than other children.
8/21/2014	Fourth year of 9% growth in US grad school admissions	PIE News
	The rise in admissions reflect a 10% rise in applications meaning that supply is meeting demand for US postgraduate studies, with Indian students dominating admission offer recipients for the second year in a row while China remains stagnant. Brazil also showed significant growth.
8/21/2014	The future of college is not as bleak as you think	New Republic
	ew magazine editors can resist a dash of apocalypse in a cover line, which is why I don't fault writer Graeme Wood for the question on the front of this month’s Atlantic: “Is College Doomed?” I'll answer that question anyway: no.
8/20/2014	The 10,000 hour rule is not real	Smithsonian Magazine
	Practice on average explains just 12 percent of skill mastery and subsequent success. "In other words the 10,000-Hour rule is nonsense. Stop believing in it. Sure, practice is important. But other factors (age? intelligence? talent?) appear to play a bigger role."
8/20/2014	Advice to my teenage self	Wall Street Journal
	School Alums Watch Video Messages They Made Ten Years Before
8/20/2014	Search trends play increasing role in international education marketing	ICEF Monitor
	Google continues to produce fascinating research on education-related search, and the growing body of data and analysis in the area is yielding important insights for education marketers.
8/20/2014	You don't have to be a computer whiz to learn to code	The Guardian (UK) [blog]
	I'm studying an arts degree, but learning to code has increased my job prospects, writes a student blogger.
8/20/2014	US universities top Shanghai global rankings, China rises	PIE News
	US universities have outranked more than 1,250 other higher education institutions around the world and China is steadily improving in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released last week by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
8/20/2014	This is statistics	American Statistical Association
	Is a Career in Statistics Right for You?
8/19/2014	The advantages of dyslexia	Scientific American
	Reading changes the structure of the brain. This highly specialized repetitive training, requiring an unnaturally precise, split-second control over eye movements, can quickly restructure the visual system so as to make some pathways more efficient than the others.
8/19/2014	Cindy Crawford fights to remove PCBs from schools	NBC News [video]
	The supermodel sits down with NBC news special anchor Maria Shriver to talk about her effort to get Congress to require all schools built from the ’50s through the ’70s to test for toxic PCBs in substances like window caulking.
8/19/2014	Something more valuable in college than good grades	Quartz
	Media and communications companies are gaga for internships and uniquely indifferent toward your classes. Health care companies care the most about your major, and white-collar businesses care the most about your GPA. Ironically, education employers care the least about grades.
8/18/2014	The invisible force behind college admissions	Forbes
	First, conjure as high a sticker price as possible for tuition. Second, plow extra money into student amenities, including country-club perks that outwardly justify it. Finally, use financial aid to offer discounts to lure richer kids who might pay the rest of that inflated tuition price in full.
8/18/2014	Iran eases restrictions on international education	ICEF Monitor
	The election last year of President Hassan Rouhani has led to a relatively more progressive and international academic climate than was the case during the reign of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mr Rouhani has called for more linkages to Western academics.
8/18/2014	Scientists discover how children learn mathematics skills	The Daily Mail (UK)
	Stanford University researchers studied elementary school-age children. They set them adding up tasks inside a brain-scanning MRI machine. It was found healthy children start making a switch at 8 to 9 years old. At that point they use what's called fact retrieval to solve problems
8/18/2014	Pictures with links	CMRubin World [blog]
	For teachers and educators, the ability to creatively combine web content with interactive images offers an exciting way to share engaging digital platforms for learning.
8/18/2014	Chromebook sales top 5 million, largely on education front	Education News
	This adds up to a 79% increase over sales for 2013, and the outlook remains impressive with 14.4 million shipments predicted through 2017.
8/17/2014	US education: How we got where we are today	Christian Science Monitor
	The standardized state of US schools today grew from the Reagan blueprint, ‘A Nation at Risk.’ Why that legacy matters now.
8/17/2014	'Getting-by girls straddle gap between academic winners and losers	Phys.org
	Coping strategies include paying attention in class, placating teachers and other authority figures, copying one another's schoolwork or cheating, avoiding challenges and bringing home B-average report cards.
8/15/2014	Australia's foreign commencement growth "wide and deep"	PIE News
	Course commencements rose among students from all but 15% of Australia’s top 75% source markets. China, India and Vietnam remain the top three countries of origin with Indian commencements seeing a 52% surge.
8/15/2014	A snapshot of kids' language and literacy apps	EdCentral
	Apps for social communication, learning, and play are a prominent part of nearly every family’s life today. Are they having a similar impact on how families and educators help their children learn to read? And if so, what kinds of apps are they using?
8/15/2014	The business of sports field maintenance	District Administration
	Keeping turf fields in prime condition is about precision and expertise.
8/15/2014	Rolling out blended learning	District Administration
	Seven steps for choosing platforms and changing the game in K12 achievement.
8/15/2014	International student enrolment strengthening in New Zealand	ICEF Monitor
	Compared to 2012, the May to August trimester saw overall growth of 4%, followed by 2% growth again from September to December.
8/15/2014	Campus Pride releases 2014 Top 50 List of LGBT-friendly Colleges	Campus Pride [blog]
	Unlike the Princeton Review LGBT rankings, the Campus Pride Index is based in research on policy, program and practice and is conducted “for and by” LGBT experts in the field of higher education.
8/15/2014	The 20 highest-paying jobs not requiring a college degree	Yahoo! Finance
	"It's important to note, however, that most high-paying jobs available to high school grads involve skillsets that require extensive post-secondary training or several years' worth of prior experience, and are often in fields that have seen declining employment in recent years."
8/14/2014	Confuse students to help them learn	Chronicle of Higher Education
	The students who had watched the more confusing videos learned more. The students who had watched the more-straightforward videos learned less, yet walked away with more confidence in their comprehension.
8/13/2014	Public School Quality Sways Private School Enrollment	U.S. News & World Report
	The quality of public schools plays a big role in private school enrollment in U.S. metropolitan areas, and neighborhoods with high-quality public schools tend to have higher housing costs.
8/13/2014	Is technology just standardizing education more?	Real Clear Education
	Vilson suggests that technology may be doing more to standardize education than to personalize it. He elaborates at length on how some kids may not succeed at school not just because of obstacles they encounter, but because schooling for them is a bad fit.
8/13/2014	The future of college?	The Atlantic
	A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries. What if he's right?
8/13/2014	Home schooling rate accelerates in North Carolina	Newsobserver.com
	For the first time, more students were educated at home than in private schools. Homeschoolers in the Tar Heel State attributed the spike to parental fears about the Common Core.
8/12/2014	The Advanced-Placement numbers racket	Los Angeles Times
	Why AP courses are overrated: There's too much to teach in too little time, a former LAUSD teacher argues
8/12/2014	Getting boys — and girls — interested in computer coding	Washington Monthly - Hechinger Report
	Overall, girls account for 44 percent of the 1.2 million comments posted about computer programming projects on Scratch every month. Girls outnumber boys more than two to one in comments within Scratch’s studio area, where kids experiment with role-playing and story-telling games.
8/12/2014	Still exempt from Title IX	Inside Higher Ed
	The five federal service academies -- the Air Force Academy, the Coast Guard Academy, the Merchant Marine Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Military Academy in West Point -- are exempt from both Title IX and the Clery Act.
8/11/2014	33 states don't protect LGBT students in anti-bullying laws	Vox
	So far, advocates have made gains in some states. But as they continue their efforts, a big question remains: how successful are these laws, really?
8/11/2014	Colleges under pressure to stem sexual assault	USA Today
	Over the past three years, a network of advocates for victims of sexual assault has made the case that campus rape is far more prevalent than most colleges like to admit.
8/11/2014	Canada courts foreign talent with pathways to residency	PIE News