For more than a decade, Corporate Voices for Working Families (Corporate Voices) has cultivated
public and private policies that promote the wellbeing of working families while strengthening
our nation’s economy and enhancing the vitality of our communities. Our partner companies lead
their industries in developing best practices that both help working families and meet bottom-line
business goals. Nowhere is this more evident than in Corporate Voices’ work on jobs, skills, education
and training.

How can data enhance instruction? Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur, feeling he had reached a limitation with lecture-style teaching, sought to foster greater knowledge assimilation in students through a tool he developed called Learning Catalytics. When students respond to classroom questions, using laptops or mobile phones, Learning Catalytics tracks their answers – and then provides helpful results, such as suggesting ideal pairings for subsequent discussion groups. The tool also uses student analytics to help instructors hone future questions.

by Silja Kallenbach

Most of us are part of multiple communities of practice whether we realize it or not. "Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly," according to Etienne Wenger who researches communities of practice and who coined the term.

Prince George’s County Community College Student
Wins DREAM Big for College Video Contest

DREAM Big for College Video Contest is one of several components to Achieving the Dream’s new student-centered “DREAM Big for College” campaign that is fast-tracking community college students’ voices right to the ear of policy-makers and influencers.

This reports presents information about how education philathropists approach their work and prioritize their funding practices.

Affirmative action laws are being reviewed, particularly as they apply to college admissions. Accordign to this article, colleges across the country may be asked to overhaul the current efforts to promote racial diversity after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to reconsider the constitutionality of affirmative action in admissions.

According to this article, more than a dozen states have limited or have completely cut funding for remedial education courses at four-year institutions, pushing developmental education to community colleges. Are funding policies like these creating (or further contributing to) a higher education "caste system" wherein higher income, higher performing students go to universities and lower income, lower performing students go to community colleges?