Articles Tagged: IowaIdeas: Education

Black Student Unions, culturally responsive curriculum and equity groups lead the way toward decreasing the achievement gap between Black and white students

‘I have no illusions that we will ever go back to so-called normal’

A Cedar Rapids teacher, who’s been using technology in her elementary classrooms for a decade, says it can help children, but never replace in-person learning.

How many freshmen will Iowa universities see this fall? It’s hard to tell, given the enrollment losses last year because of COVID-19 and the pandemic’s impact on family finances.

IOWA CITY – An ACT Scholar program enabled Eduardo Munoz to be the first in his family to go to …

David M. Kennedy is the Executive Director of the National Network for Safe Communities, a project of John Jay College …

The achievement gap in education is the disparity in academic performance between groups of students. In Iowa, that’s students with …

Speaker: Ronald F. Ferguson, PhD / Lecturer in Public Policy and Faculty Director of the Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard Kennedy …

With in-person learning challenged in ways like never before, what adjustments need to be made to make sure all students …

The COVID pandemic has inserted significant uncertainty in Iowa’s higher education system, threatening the delivery of learning, enrollment and finances …

Hear from a mix of students and teachers who have taken education out of the classroom. How are students being …

Work was already underway on Iowa’s edTech landscape ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Then students around the globe were forced …

The data is clear that students entering school with quality early childhood programming are up to 18 months ahead of …

School-business partnerships long have been a staple to building a future workforce and encouraging students to think about building a …

CEDAR RAPIDS – The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing Iowans to rethink how education is delivered – including permanently incorporating online …