General education courses are a requirement at most four-year universities, where they are also a common topic of complaint for students. I had my fair share of gripes about having to take STEM ...

In the past couple of decades, it seems that the value of education for the sake of growth and knowledge has been diminished.

Dr. Dyana Harrelson’s teaching responsibilities include general education math courses, calculus courses and statistics courses. When teaching math to a general education audience, her goal is to ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

The Harvard College Program in General Education updated its guidelines for Gen Ed instructors in an attempt to standardize grading across classes and mitigate grade inflation. The new guidelines, ...

For Virginia Tech students and students at most other colleges, much of the first few years on campus consist of general education requirements. Virginia Tech’s Pathways Program allows students to ...

It is also sometimes called liberal education, including by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which describes it as providing “a sense of social responsibility, as well as strong ...