Eighteen years of mobilizing marginalized students, making science more innovative

The Lamat Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a cohort-based research program designed to advance ...
EdTech Magazine

Active Learning Classrooms Foster Collaboration Among Students

The classic mode of lecturing is pretty passive, with the teacher on the stage and delivering content and the students ...
Edutopia

Setting Up Student-Centered Lessons as a Substitute

A former full-time teacher and principal describes how she works to keep engagement high and learning fun when she is substituting.
Forbes

90% Of Faculty Say AI Is Weakening Student Learning: How Higher Ed Can Reverse It

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Ninety percent of faculty say that AI is weakening critical thinking; a core component of ...
aasa.org

Spotlighting Student-Centered Learning in Four School Systems

Colorful, hand-drawn backpacks line classroom walls in California’s Campbell Union School District. The outside of each backpack is decorated with symbols that represent parts of a student’s identity ...
New York Post

Final Columbia University antisemitism report details disturbing examples of Jewish students being cruelly singled out

A Columbia University public health instructor ranted to 400 incoming students about how the school’s prominent Jewish donors only made their gifts to “launder blood money” and denied the existence of ...
Frontiers

Student support during project-based learning using simulated automated formative feedback: an experimental evaluation

1 Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia 2 LEARN! Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Project-based learning ...
Psychology Today

Promoting Student Engagement and Motivation in Learning

Engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, or interest that a student shows when they are learning something new. Engagement can be fostered by different types of motivation—external and ...
Wall Street Journal

The Chicago Students Learning How to Get Very, Very Rich

CHICAGO—Growing up in a low-income household on Chicago’s South Side, Jenae Crockett earned good grades and a partial scholarship to college. But she was forced to drop out when she realized she ...
Inside Higher Ed

What If We Imagined a Student-Centered AI University?

In late 2022, while visiting friends in Seattle, I went for a couple of laps around Green Lake with my buddy Sam Wineburg. We were both struggling to come up with titles for our books when he told me ...
ABC7

3 stabbed at Torrance school; ex-student arrested, claims he placed 2 pipe bombs in area, police say

TORRANCE, Calif. (KABC) -- A former student at a Torrance school allegedly stabbed three staff members and attempted to stab a fourth before he was arrested. The suspect also told authorities he ...
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UC Santa Cruz earns Seal of Excelencia recertification for student-centered approach

UC Santa Cruz is one of 18 colleges and universities to earn the Seal in 2025, reaffirming its place in a group of nearly 50 institutions that are taking responsibility for advancing student success.