Last month, the Trump administration announced that it was taking action to “break up” the department of education by rehoming certain functions to the Departments of Labor, the Interior, Health and Human Services, and State. The move, the announcement says, is meant to “move closer to fulfilling the President’s promise to
Two weeks ago, we took a look at the recent UC San Diego report on its remedial math course, which found that the number of students needing remediation in even middle and elementary school math skills had risen sharply in the last several years. This week, we return to that
In a report released earlier this month, UC San Diego sought to address what its Senate-Administration Workgroup on Admissions called “a steep decline in the academic preparation of its entering first-year students”. This decline, they write, “poses serious challenges both to student success and to the university’s instructional mission.” While writing and language were
Last week, The Washington Post reported on efforts in Virginia to increase the cut scores on the Standards of Learning assessments. “The goal,” the paper reported, “is to align state exam standards with the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a federal test used to measure career readiness and student achievement.” The effort is
How does the news media cover education? Are certain types of stories privileged over others in national coverage? These are some of the questions that the team at Bellwether set out to answer in their recent analysis of education news stories across the last year. Looking at over 1,500 stories
One of the key metrics that the Winston Group watches in education is issue handling. Do voters have more confidence in Republicans or Democrats to handle the issue? Our recent piece for Education Next attempted to explain some of the recent contradictory findings about who voters prefer more. Today, we look