Recent Conferences of Note Connecting How We Learn to Educational Practice and Policy: Research Evidence and Implications International Conference January 23-24, 2012, Paris, France There is increasing interest in connecting a broad array of scientists and practitioners at an internat

One measure of educational equity is the extent to which disadvantaged students are likely to attend disadvantaged schools as opposed to mixed schools (those with students from a variety of social-economic backgrounds) or advantaged schools (those with students from well-educated and

New Announcements On February 23, the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) announced that Robert L. King, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, and Robert Schwartz, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice in Educational Policy and Administration at

Welcome to Top of the Class, our new monthly e-newsletter, and also to our new web site. Both are intended to provide you with a gateway into a world that appears to be of great interest to a growing number of educators and policy makers everywhere, a world defined by the accomplishme

By Roland Østerlund, former director general of the Ministry of Education, Denmark On the shelf with literature on education there is a wealth of books and articles on higher education issues but little on the possibilities for the large group of young people who do not opt for an aca