by Dennis Day | Jun 21, 2016 | Student Success |
The first year of my career, I taught public school in a state that had just issued a requirement that students graduating must pass a proficiency test. This was the first time a “measurement” had become so important in my professional career. As time passed and the...
by Dennis Day | Apr 26, 2016 | Student Success |
Even with sophisticated predictive analytics, we’re still 12th???? Imagine: You dash into the weekly President’s Council at your college or university and pronounce: “We are 12th amongst our peers in degree attainment!” Not sure what the reaction would be? At the Fall...
by Dennis Day | Feb 23, 2016 | Student Success |
This time of the year marks the end of the professional football season with the playing of the Super Bowl, the middle of the National Basketball Association season with the All – Star game and the beginning of the professional baseball season with Spring Training...
by Dennis Day | Dec 7, 2015 | Student Success |
Through necessity, politics and education often converge. The greatest confluence of impact is on funding: it always gets down to the money. Public and private education is dependent on government funding sources whether it is local, state or federal funding. Since...
by Dennis Day | Jun 15, 2015 | Student Success |
Television has long mimicked real life; taking license from actual behavior and dramatizing or making fun of real people’s reactions to everyday situations. During an episode of the docu-comedy “The Office,” Michael Scott, Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin, thinks he...
