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  Oakland, CA (June 13, 2025) — The National Laboratory for Education Transformation (www.NLET.org), a California R & D nonprofit, today announced the appointment of Richard Curtin, Managing Partner at Silicon Catalyst (www.SiliconCatalyst.com) as a Senior Advisor for the NLET Semiconductor Industry and AI Sector workgroup. Curtin brings decades of strategic leadership and deep industry…Read more…

The New Mexico Consortium is hosting Cosmic Frontiers: Stephen Hawking & The Universe, a two-day event April 27-28, 2024 centered around scientist Stephen Hawking. The event, the first in a planned yearly ‘Cosmic Frontiers’ series, includes a screening of the 1991 film on Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” which won the prestigious Sundance Film…Read more…

The California Corequisite Initiative (CCI) is a systemwide effort to develop and widely share a set of tools to improve instruction, delivery, and equitable student outcomes in corequisite math courses.  The initiative is a collaboration among several organizations under the direction of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. A cornerstone strategy in supporting students in transfer-level…Read more…

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A recently released national study finds the implicit and explicit bias may cloud the judgement of teachers when evaluating math ability in students.  Below are the highlights: A preregistered experiment tested for teacher biases in an online “zoom” setting. Based on identical math work, teachers showed bias against girls and Black students. Boys were recommended…Read more…

Instanbul, Turkiye — Gordon Freedman, Chair of the Board for the National Laboratory for Education Transformation delivered a keynote address to the International Conference on Innovation in Basic — Higher Education.  Titled Multiple Configurations for Higher Education as a Result of the Covid Era, the presentation highlighted how the shifts caused by the pandemic have…Read more…

University of Massachusetts Global announced today that Dr. David Andrews has agreed to serve as the university’s next chancellor. The Board of Regents offered the position to Andrews after conducting a national search for an executive with an entrepreneurial mindset, experience managing an online adult-focused university, a commitment to diversity, and a student-centered approach to…Read more…

NLET to reorganize under Andrews’ leadership with a primary focus on supporting and credentialing learners equitably in a post-COVID-19 world.   San Diego, CA, March 30, 2022 – David Andrews, long-time education innovator, joins the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET) as its second president. Andrews replaces founder Gordon Freedman who established NLET ten years…Read more…

Northern New Mexico College announces a new partnership with Austin, Texas startup GoEducate that will fundamentally reshape the future of postsecondary education and its impact on the local and regional workforce by connecting the dots between students, college programs and employers. Together, Northern and the education technology company have launched an Opportunity Portal powered by “smart pathways”…Read more…

Move over Google – There is a new search utility on the Web. And it could be a game-changer for campuses and for K12. It personalizes search and is secure and private. In place of distracting, time-consuming targeted ads, here is a new potentially education-friendly layout that can be customized. Too good to be true? Enter…Read more…

MONTEREY, Calif., May 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The National Laboratory for Education Transformation, NLET, a California research and development nonprofit just released The Newest Economy: Welcome to the Credential Currency Revolution, a paper that unravels the complex relationship in the U.S. between academic degree attainment and occupational certification and their relationship to the current needs…Read more…

Arthur Levine has served as an almost singular higher education beacon in the U.S., and elsewhere, going on forty-five years. For a dozen he steered Teacher’s College, Columbia University’s graduate school of education, psychology and health. He has been the bad boy of higher ed, willing repeatedly to try to get senior administrators, boards and state…Read more…