Scholz Holds Firm With Putin, Promoting College Student Success, and More

February 17, 2022

Many Western diplomats were holding their collective breath as new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz flew to Moscow on Tuesday for the latest diplomatic effort to stave off war in eastern Europe. Constanze Stelzenmüller explains how the trip went and what difficulties lie ahead for Scholz and his party.

“Corequisite remediation,” in which students are allowed into college-level courses with concurrent learning support, has become a popular strategy to help students not deemed college-ready. Florence Xiaotao Ran and Yuxin Lin evaluate the effects of the first systemwide corequisite educational reform in Tennessee.

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“Africa should not expect outsiders to come and save it. And in my view, if this is the only lesson that Africa learns from this pandemic, it should be a lesson well worth learning.” On the latest episode of the Foresight Africa podcast, Olusoji Adeyi discusses important takeaways from recent public health crises in Africa.

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