For the first time, U.S. News & World Report has released a separate category ranking for social mobility. The goal with this ranking is to see which colleges actually do the best job lifting students up between enrollment and graduation, not just enrolling the best and brightest.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, The California State System has proposed requiring an additional high school course in quantitative reasoning to qualify for admission, based on data which shows that students with those capabilities are much more likely to succeed at Cal State.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the National Association for College Admission Counseling is under pressure from the Justice Department to remove “antitrust” provisions that could be seen as limiting student choice.

Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, a new study out of Harvard University surprisingly shows that students from an introductory physics course not only preferred a lecture to the active-learning experience, but also believed they had learned more in the lecture.

While a long-term College Board study recently came back showing low effectiveness of student-focused nudge communications, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the California State System is testing a new system where professors themselves will receive personalized nudge communications.

Reported by EdSurge, a recent Gallup survey in partnership with Northeastern University showed that 73% of Americans believe employers are responsible for retraining. The problem? Most employers don’t see retraining as their responsibility, nor are they often deeply embedded in the education game.

Robots are coming for the under-educated first. The problem? Community college enrollment fell 11% from 2012 to 2017.

Reported by EdSurge, with flat 4-year college enrollment and decreasing 2-year enrollment, economists are concerned that a lot of low-skill jobs on the docket to be replaced by automation are going to leave a lot of adults with only a high school diploma in a really difficult economic situation.

Do adult students require different EdTech?

Reported by EdSurge, a new study from the U.S. Department of Education finds that adult learners and traditional learners likely need very different EdTech tools.

Are colleges solving for economic inequality or reinforcing it?

Reported by EdSurge, the new book “The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us” by Paul Tough, tells a troubling story about the lack of social mobility college affords those who need it most.

Student retention is an engagement game.

Reported by EdSurge, a recent study from Civitas Learning shows that the highest correlation for improved student retention rates are involvement in non-academic activities on campus.