No matter their subject, the finalists for the 2026 National Teacher of the Year make their communities central to their ...

The Office of Community Based Learning supports faculty efforts to effectively integrate service-learning, community-based research, and class-community exchanges into their courses in order to ...

What is Place-based Learning? Place-based learning is an instructional approach that focuses on developing student’s sense of place and learning through exploring their environment. Thus, most ...

School districts in every state now have the green light to establish competency-based education programs and models in their classrooms—but they have a lot of work to do on the operational side to ...

As we begin redesigning our programs and courses for a semester-based academic schedule, many of us are taking this (rare) opportunity to reflect on our current offerings and to experiment with fresh ...

When I look back on my most memorable learning experiences, they are times my teachers connected to my humanity and my world. I remember my English teacher pausing scheduled lessons to ask us to ...

Four Los Angeles community colleges partner to expand workforce development and career readiness opportunities for students.

Does the city you grew up in look the same as it did a decade ago? Cities are rapidly growing, some for the better, and some not so much. Take the following: gentrification, job loss, housing pressure ...

Millions of people across the U.S. lack reliable access to affordable, nutritious food — including about one in six families in Philadelphia. Food and Land Security in Philadelphia, an intensive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Serenity Gibbons is a business consultant who covers entrepreneurs. This article is more than 4 years old. Shortly before 2010, ...

A recent study suggests that although there is growing interest in skills- and competency-based learning, few colleges and universities have actually implemented the new model. The report, released ...

This practice supports the Canaima community in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), home to approximately 3,000 people, with a focus on children, young people, and women who face limited access to ...