Are you “in the know” or “on the out?” Well, many college students don’t even know where they stand thanks to our friend, the hidden curriculum. The hidden curriculum refers to the set of norms and ...

A recent Bluesky thread about teaching undergraduates the hidden curriculum of college caught my eye. Miriam Posner, an associate professor of information studies at the University of California at ...

These seven meta-lessons can help explain the partisan diploma divide, Michael Schwalbe writes. What we learn in school comes ...

Idalis Villanueva Alarcón (FOE 2022) is an associate professor and associate chair for research and graduate studies in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida.

When the word “innovation” gets used on my campus, I often notice panic spreading across my colleagues’ faces. The thought of chalkboards being dismantled and replaced with complicated, high-tech ...

“When you’re a college student, you have to learn to work the system to get help. And trust me, there is a system.” This statement, made by a student to an audience of campus administrators and higher ...

The hidden curriculum in undergraduate medical education: qualitative study of medical students’ perceptions of teaching BMJ Volume 329, pp 770-3 A 'hidden' curriculum of haphazard tuition and ...

When he was young, Jason Krastein remembers his father, a nephrologist, coming home from the hospital to compile patient notes and pre-chart for the next day before spending time with the family. As a ...

In recent years, many colleges and universities have turned to mentoring programs in an attempt to retain underperforming students. Federally supported mentoring programs have been around since the ...

1. Public Education. While I like many standalone charters—mom-and-pop shops—run by the constituents of the school’s “community,” I see no reason why the schools have to go charter to have that ...