In recent years, many colleges and universities have turned to mentoring programs in an attempt to retain underperforming students. Federally supported mentoring programs have been around since the ...
Idalis Villanueva Alarcón (FOE 2022) is an associate professor and associate chair for research and graduate studies in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida.
When the word “innovation” gets used on my campus, I often notice panic spreading across my colleagues’ faces. The thought of chalkboards being dismantled and replaced with complicated, high-tech ...
Much has been written about college’s “hidden” curriculum: the institutional culture and unspoken norms and expectations that influence academic and post-graduation success. This hidden curriculum ...
When he was young, Jason Krastein remembers his father, a nephrologist, coming home from the hospital to compile patient notes and pre-chart for the next day before spending time with the family. As a ...
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1. Public Education. While I like many standalone charters—mom-and-pop shops—run by the constituents of the school’s “community,” I see no reason why the schools have to go charter to have that ...