Learning & Assessment

Colleges and universities need to get involved in the the rollout of the Common Core curriculum, argues a new paper from the New America Foundation.

The controversy over Facebook's manipulation of data raises vexing issues for educational researchers at a time of great promise -- and risk, Justin Reich and Mitchell Stevens argue.

More students are leaving higher education after their first year, according to new national numbers that are bad news for the college completion push.

States have chaotic lack of consistency in how they track college remediation, according to the Education Commission of the States, which seeks national standards.

Southern accreditor strips its approval from Georgia's Brewton-Parker College, and places four others -- Louisiana, Newberry and Paine Colleges and South Carolina State -- on probation.

Colorado's fix for remedial education is multipronged rather than heavy-handed, and it seems to be working.

Too many colleges are focusing their analysis of student data to find the students likeliest to fail. Instead, they should identify which interventions will help which groups of students succeed, Dave Jarrat writes.