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Building a Data-Informed Strategic Plan for 2026
Using Data to Inform Your Institution’s Year-in-Review Process Strategic organizational development, when applied to higher education institutions, demands setting accountability […]
December 17, 2025
Avoiding pitfalls in math curriculum adoption
Credit: Courtesy Partnership for LA Schools In early November, the California Department of Education released its list of approved curricula […]
December 17, 2025
Walk on by: the dilemma of the blind eye
by Dennis Sherwood Forty years on… I don’t remember much about my experiences at work some forty-odd years ago, but […]
December 17, 2025
Rethinking What We Choose to Measure in Schools
Sitting in a recent district administrator meeting, I found myself excited about a new student data platform my district is […]
December 17, 2025
Ideas for improving California’s school funding formula come with billion-dollar costs; here’s why
A teacher leads fourth graders in a lesson at William Jefferson Clinton Elementary in Compton on Feb. 6, 2025. Credit: […]
December 17, 2025
The New Rules of College Digital Advertising
This post was co-authored with Vaughn Shinkus. Digital advertising in higher education recruitment: 2020–2024 trends and student perspectives Colleges are […]
December 17, 2025
Judge could halt California antisemitism school law ahead of Jan. 1 rollout
Credit: Alison Yin / EdSource A federal judge could decide as early as Wednesday whether to put a hold on […]
December 17, 2025
Five Data-Informed Steps for Optimizing College Student Retention
Where do you start as you are creating a student retention plan? The answer is with data. Simply put, data […]
December 17, 2025
School shootings dropped in 2025
Active shootings represent a very small percentage of on-campus university violence. But among those that do happen, there are patterns. […]
December 17, 2025