MCAS Can Evolve for a New Era
Posted On: 6/10/2008
Nellie Mae Education Foundation President and CEO, Nicholas C. Donohue, recently authored a piece in Commonwealth Magazine entitled "MCAS Can Evolve for a New Era." In the column, Mr. Donohue responds to New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang's call for a dual diploma system in Massachusetts by making the case for an evolved system that takes into account all of the ways students learn.
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A New Beginning for the Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Posted On: 2/18/2008
Dear Colleague: 2008 marks an exciting new phase for the Nellie Mae Education Foundation. As our grant agenda established in 2000 winds down as planned, we have had the opportunity to reflect, think ahead and plan for the next stage of the Foundation's evolution.
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An Open Letter to the Next President
Posted On: 1/22/2008
A recent edition of Education Week featured a commentary from Dr. James Comer, Maurice Falk professor of child psychiatry at Yale University, in New Haven, Conn., founder of the Yale Child Study Center School Development Program, and member of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation's Board of Directors. In the piece, Dr. Comer offers advice to the next President about what needs to be done to improve education in the United States.
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Adult Education: From a Terminal Degree to Lifelong Learning
Posted On: 1/22/2008
In the Winter, 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Higher Education (formerly Connection Magazine) Nellie Mae Education Foundation President & CEO Nicholas C. Donohue addresses the need to change the perceptions and expectations we have about adult education in the 21st Century.
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Standard-Driven Variety
Posted On: 10/11/2007
In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Higher Education, Nellie Mae Education Foundation President and CEO Nicholas C. Donohue examines
the need for educators, philanthropists and all concerned citizens to re-examine and re-define the accepted variety of postsecondary outcomes and related pathways to those outcomes. Donohue states that if the ultimate goal is to educate a vast majority of students to meaningful and high standards, then we must begin to ask some truly hard questions.
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Reinvention, Not Reforms
Posted On: 7/23/2007
The latest issue of the New England Journal of Higher Education contains a column by Nellie Mae Education Foundation President and CEO, Nicholas C. Donohue. The column, "Reinvention, Not Reforms," makes the case that we need to do more than try to change and improve our current education systems. Instead, says Donohue in the piece, we need to begin to rethink our approach to some of the most basic questions about how we are educating our citizens.
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Keeping New England Competitive
Posted On: 10/13/2006
In the Fall 2006 issue of Connection magazine, Nellie Mae Education Foundation President & CEO Blenda Wilson examines what changes to education will be necessary in order for New England to remain competitive.
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Preparing Urban Scholars for College
Posted On: 7/20/2006
In the Summer 2006 issue of Connection Magazine, Nellie Mae Education Foundation President & CEO Blenda J. Wilson takes an in-depth look at the Urban Scholars program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Trends in Education Philanthropy
Posted On: 4/21/2006
Nellie Mae Education Foundation President and CEO Blenda J. Wilson recently convened an exclusive Connection magazine roundable discussion on trends in education philanthropy. Dr. Wilson's guests were Ron Ancrum, President of Associated Grant Makers; Nancy P. Roberts, President of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy; and Wendy L. Ault, Director of the MELMAC Education Foundation in Maine.
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Adults Must Be College Ready Too
Posted On: 4/10/2006
In the latest issue of Connection magazine, Nellie Mae Education Foundation President and CEO Blenda J. Wilson describes the New England Adult Basic Education - College Transition Project and shares the experiences of some of the adults who have benefited from its innovative college readiness programs.
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Coming Together
Posted On: 11/29/2005
In the fall issue of Connection Magazine, Dr. Blenda Wilson, Foundation President and CEO, discusses how a half century of segregation and desegregation continues to shape New England's future.
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Improving Math and Science Education in Massachusetts
Posted On: 10/18/2005
A column published in both the Boston Herald and the Springfield Republican by Jack Wilson, President
of UMASS and Blenda J. Wilson, President and CEO of the Nellie Mae
Education Foundation, encourages leaders to take the steps necessary to
make Massachusetts the world leader in math and science education.
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Beyond High Standards and High Stakes, We Need Higher Expectations
Posted On: 4/17/2003
While some students of color are driven to succeed, in order to do so, they must transcend a peer culture that can be overtly hostile to learning. This article originally appeared Spring 2003 in "CONNECTION: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education", and is used with permission.
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A Boost for After-School Programs
Posted On: 8/8/2002
In March 2001, 13 Boston corporations and foundations, along with Mayor Menino and the City of Boston, joined to form Boston's After-School for All Partnership to support after-school and summer programming. Together, we have committed more than $24 million to be spent over five years to accomplish three goals: increase the number of children served by after-school programs, help these programs to focus more on children's learning needs, and develop a system of sustainable public financing. This article originally appeared August 8, 2002, in The Boston Globe and is used with permission.
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Breaking the Circle that Binds Us: Mainstreaming Nontraditional Access Programs
Posted On: 8/5/2002
In G.I. Gurdjieff's "Meeting with Remarkable Men," there is a deeply disturbing scene in which a Transcaucasian boy, taunted by other children, is crying and thrashing about in an attempt to leave the boundaries of a circle painted in the dirt. While this story took place more than 100 years ago in Alexandropol, it bears some resemblance to New England's contemporary struggles to break out of its established, circular precepts of what defines a worthwhile educational intervention program. This article originally appeared Summer 2000 in "CONNECTION: New England's Journal of Higher Education and Economic Development" and is used with permission.
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Diversity Among Equals
Posted On: 10/17/2001
A recent study by the Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research and the Center for Education Policy provides some clarity to the issue of affirmative action as it is applied to college admissions in New England. This study, titled Diversity Among Equals, finds that students of color who have been admitted to colleges and universities in New England are as qualified academically and otherwise as are their white counterparts. This article originally appeared Spring 2002 in "CONNECTION: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education", and is used with permission.
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Using 'lost time' to bolster learning
Posted On: 8/13/2001
Whenever comparisons are
made of the time U.S. students and those in other nations spend in school, we
always rank among the lowest in hours engaged in academics: Only 20 percent of
our youths' time is spent in school.
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