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Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution

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Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

I would have been a dropout.”. As a result of Say Yes Buffalo partnerships, 11 district schools currently have on-site full-service health clinics; a mobile health clinic program is set to launch next fall. I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her. And I do that with [Stubbe]. high schools?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The suit against the for-profit chain and its American InterContinental University was originally filed in 2008.” Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. ” It’s an inevitable move, or so the story goes.

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