(from Inside Higher Ed) Racist text messages from one Occidental College student to another — including one declaring, “all Asian people need to die” — have created a firestorm at the private liberal arts college, with m

(from EdWeek) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has canceled a meeting of its vaccine advisory committee, which was scheduled for this week. The panel of independent experts was going to consider whether to recommend

(From Harvard Business Review) Handling incidences of employee frustration in a team is a normal part of any manager’s job. Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed schools across the country online, leaders are faci

(From The Wall Street Journal) In a sign of just how popular hybrid arrangements have become in the second year of the pandemic, 95% percent of people surveyed want flexible hours, compared with 78% of workers who want l

(From CNN) As schools scramble to find enough substitute teachers to keep classrooms running through the latest surge of the coronavirus, some experts warn there are longer-term problems with the teacher pipeline. For on

(From Edweek) The wide availability of vaccines and the apparent cresting of a steep wave of new virus cases has led leaders in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Oregon to call for ending universal school mask requir

(From Chalkbeat) While some districts have laid out detailed plans for how they intend to use federal COVID relief funds, others are much more vague, according to Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab, a school

(From SHRM) For the first year in more than a decade, the percentage of engaged workers in the U.S. declined in 2021. According to Gallup, only 34% of the 57,022 full- and part-time employees surveyed by the analytics an

(From Inside Higher Ed) The way schools are managing their organization's social media strategy has changed over the course of the pandemic, opening the door for new approaches to video content that can take prospective

(from Teibel Educational Consulting) NBOA President and CEO Jeff Shields spoke with educational consultant Howard Teibel on the "Navigating Change" podcast about what independent schools have learned in the past two year

(from the Washington Post) Coronavirus vaccines for children younger than 5 could be available far sooner than expected — perhaps by the end of February — under a plan that would lead to the potential authorization of a

(From Accounting Today) The question of how to account for digital assets has emerged as a challenging one for accountants as use of cryptocurrencies becomes increasingly common. To help accountants and auditors in this

(from Gravity Renewables) A consortium of seven independent Rhode Island schools and one industrial arts education center has partnered a national owner, operator, and developer of small hydroelectric power plants, Gravi

(From PRSA) As employers prepare for another year impacted by the “Great Resignation,” it’s important to prioritize the employee experience as a way to attract and retain workers. Molly Eyerman, founder and CEO of VIVO G

(from Society of Human Resources Management) OSHA has withdrawn its emergency temporary standard that would require employees of large employers to either get vaccinated against COVID-19 or regularly test. Because the Su

(From NPR) On Tuesday, the College Board announced that the SAT will be taken digitally beginning in 2023 for international students and beginning in 2024 for U.S.-based students. Organizers say this will give test-taker

(from NBC News) Ransomware hackers have taken to threatening not just schools but students enrolled at them if schools do not pay ransoms for school data that they "hold hostage." Ransomware hackers have littered the dar

(from CNN) Just as free COVID-19 tests are landing in the mailboxes of people who ordered them, the first free N95 masks for the public have started to arrive at U.S. pharmacies, with more on the way in the coming days.

(From K-12 Dive) In New Mexico, National Guard members and state workers are being encouraged to volunteer to become licensed substitute teachers and child care workers. It's the latest state to float an unorthodox solut

(From Inside Higher Ed) Differing guidance has emerged for when college students testing positive for covid-19 should be able to break their isolation. Last week, the American College Health Association’s (ACHA) COVID-19