This session, Introduction to CA Practitioners’ Guide for Educating English Learners with Disabilities, will assist Local Education Agencies (LEA) practitioners to understand the legal requirements, best practices, and resources to assist them in appropriately determining what and how to proceed with instructing students identified as English learners with disabilities. Leaders and educators will learn to […]

The Covid-19 crisis has hit low-income students especially hard, and many will ultimately transfer to colleges closer to home. Yet, even in the best of times, the transfer experience is often complicated and students frequently lose credits earned at their previous institutions. With the threat of even greater financial hardship, a growing number of potential […]

As the job market struggles to recover, colleges must focus on new ways to help prepare their students for post-graduate success. How can colleges ensure that graduates will have the skills sought by employers? To find out The Chronicle surveyed companies and other employers about the needs they have now and how colleges can better […]

Higher ed is in a seemingly constant state of flux--and along with it, the lives of students, faculty, and staff. Covid-19 outbreaks on college campuses reopened for classes this fall have led to a chaotic start to the semester, with some institutions returning to a fully virtual platform and others enacting new restrictions for student […]

College admissions has always been a mysterious process. To those on the outside, the holistic and subjective process used by colleges can create an air of distrust. Now, as Covid-19 continues to upend colleges and universities nationwide, the task for many admissions officers is how to recruit and evaluate students in a more transparent way. […]