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This brief provides background on landmark movements in education that have led to the requirements that students face today and highlights key questions to explore with new data.

This article has been produced in partnership between The 74 and the XQ Institute. In 1906, the Carnegie Unit, or credit hour, was introduced to standardize U.S. public education. It defined the precise number of minutes students needed to learn a particular subject and the number of “credit hours” required to earn a high school […]

In the early 1900s, the nation’s civic leaders launched a full court press to make secondary education — previously offered to an elite few — available to the many. They compelled communities to build high schools and sought to convince the populace that a diploma was their ticket out of a life of hard labor, as […]

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UC Berkeley’s Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program has allowed undergraduate students to engage in projects alongside campus researchers since 1991.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and ETS today announced a new partnership designed to radically transform education...

This article has been produced in partnership between The 74 and the XQ Institute. Indianapolis, IN — Raina’s ninth grade schedule at Purdue Polytechnic High School looked nothing like that of a typical high school student. Unlike most teens, she never attended single-subject, 50-minute periods like math, English and social studies. No bells rang when class […]

Time to take a stroll down memory lane and visit some opinions I’ve put forth during my two decades column-writing for this publication. • On being able to sing: If you know you cannot sing, then don’t sing. And if you have been living with the delusion that you can sing, someone who realizes your folly ought to tell you so. The fact is not everyone can match a pitch. • On providing golf in school curriculums: If your local school system does not offer the life-time sport of...