Heartland Educator: A conversation with the president of Eastern Oregon University
Tom Insko talks turnaround efforts, business partnerships and closing the urban-rural divide.
Education
Learning Hacks
The K-12 education space is consumed by reform fever. Decentralization is one of the symptoms.
Q&A with Oregon’s Education Innovation Officer
Oregon’s first Education Innovation Officer Colt Gill talks about Oregon’s dismal graduation rate and how communities and businesses can help solve the problem.
Power to the People: Launch, Startup Tip and Where They Are Now
Vanessa Van Edwards was studying international relations at Emory University and planning a career working for the state department as a translator and communicator when she decided she wanted to do something different: Start a human behavior research company.
Lab Work
A conversation with Sam Angelos about advancing advanced manufacturing at Oregon State University.
The Professor and the Pragmatist
How Lumen Learning aims to pry open the multibillion-dollar textbook market.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Storyteller-in-chief with the CEO and president of Albina Bank.
Light Reading
BY JACOB PALMER
Ask any college student: Textbook prices have skyrocketed out of control. Online education startup Lumen Learning aims to bring them down to earth.
Aim High
BY JOE CORTRIGHT
We get the education we deserve.