Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

a favorite target of critics of the for-profit school industry, has named former Catapult Learning official Stuart J. In 2014 K12 suffered a big blow when the 10,800-student Agora Cyber Charter School in Pennsylvania ditched the private management company in favor of managing its own operations. Udell as its CEO. a year ago and $36.78

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. Weekly Update.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

students attend blended classes on campus and take online courses from home, and district educators say a personalized learning solution has had a positive impact in a number of academic areas. The number of high school students being held back a grade dropped in the 2014-15 school year by nearly two-thirds—from 19 down to 7.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. It’s going to take a lot more and a lot of other support.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” This process should be something we do for students that dropout and graduate. October 23, 2014 “Visibility Creates Accountability” November 5, 2014 Questioning Forward March 22, 2015 Innovation has no age barrier. Bill Gates.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

I do think there are lessons to be learned from what’s going on in Maine right now,” said Jerome Lucido, executive director of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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JUNE 26, 2019

At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Bailey Fraser, 15 (left), and her stepsister Leah Kimball, 15, volunteer with Edible Bethel during their service learning block. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Sophia Jones-Redmond, superintendent of the district, which serves students from ages 13 to 21, said that a blended-learning model has been a major factor in this success. Illinois’ effort to bring online learning to juvenile justice facility classrooms is rare nationwide. Why not learn something while we’re here?”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Wess Wheeler (L), an independent learning opportunity student at Randolph Union High School, and Miles Hooper, manager and co-owner of Ayers Brook Goat Dairy farm, among the goats. It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Over the past seven years, through the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), those institutions have innovated together, scaled what works, held each other accountable and shared everything they’ve learned. Along the way, we’ve learned some hard-earned lessons. What works at one place doesn’t always transfer perfectly to another.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The Greenfield model uses some rather commonplace strategies, such as integrating online learning, small-group instruction and greater parental and community involvement. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Joe Bower @ joe_bower Joe Bower began inspiring me several years ago when I came across his blog, " For the Love of Learning " where he shares his distaste of grading and blogs and his admiration for the work of Alfie Kohn. I was shocked when I learned he was taken from us too soon and too young as a result of an unexpected, heart attack.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

More than 42 percent of students who arrived at the state’s community colleges in 2014 required at least one remedial course, as did more than 17 percent of new students, including transfers, at four-year public Mississippi universities according to a new analysis of data. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

According to a new report by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, during the 2014-15 school year, the difference between the graduation rates of black and white students in the state was one of the smallest in the country. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. percent to 75.4

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Utica College, which reduced its tuition in 2016, lowered its dropout rate, President Laura Casamento said. The school quickly reversed course, in 2014, by raising tuition sharply and reinstating scholarships, and its enrollment bounced back. Baenninger said. The sticker price was untenable.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We RELATED: Hot spots no silver bullet for rural remote learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Between 2014 and 2018, the economy improved as it recovered from the Great Recession, and that could have pushed some students to leave school for a strong job market. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. Spokane is updating its entire K-12 curriculum to teach those kinds of skills.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The top 20 percent of earners saw their incomes rise by 95 percent in real terms between 1979 and 2014, whereas the middle three quintiles recorded just 28 percent growth, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And as wages have flat lined, college costs have spiraled.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

The Iowa Attorney General’s suit against La’James, filed in 2014, accused the school of having used deceptive marketing and enrollment practices. “What we found was that La’James was withholding the money that students were entitled to and pushing them into financial ruin.”. La’James admitted no wrongdoing and settled, forgiving nearly $2.2

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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

At the end of the 2014 school year, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) honored 24 graduating seniors from 12 different high schools. Valerie’s research illuminates a learning journey that leads to action. Students learn how to be civically active by being civically active. There is no textbook to teach civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Degree inflation.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill. That’s the foundation of learning.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

A mother of two, Amy Nalesnik felt her heart drop when she learned the campus day care center she had hoped would watch her kids all day was being evicted. Amy Nalesnik, a 29-year-old pregnant mother of two, who had to find another place to put them after the day care center at her university shut down. Courtesy of Amy Nalesnik.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

Here’s a hard lesson I’ve learned working in the after-school field for nearly three decades: Often, it’s not until report cards come that parents discover there’s a problem. We help make learning fun for those who are flailing, using gaming and group activities that the students enjoy. million in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Melanie Tucci calculated that she would have to work about 30 hours a week as well as take out loans to make it through college when she started at Temple in 2014. Nearly 40 percent of them get no credit for any of the courses they have completed and lose 27 credits on average — or about a year of school, according to a 2014 federal study.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Learning how to effectively manage college’s abundance of free time — which can be a shock for many students who are accustomed to a structured schedule in high school — was also a focus of questions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school. Who goes to college to learn what they were doing in high school?” SAN DIEGO – Anthony Rodriguez recalled sitting in a remedial math class at Grossmont College, bored out of his mind. Eventually, he dropped out too.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

He was a responsible kid, eager to learn,” said Rhodes. True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. I love my teachers; they made me learn,” Elliott said. And I love the people that went to Carver.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

He was frustrated enough by how little he was learning that he and his family were on the brink of suing the school district. Now his teacher had so little faith in his ability to learn that she was offering to help him cheat. “If Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. He rarely studied but still got As. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

Relenting to pressure, the state ultimately agreed and, in 2014, broke ground on a state-of-the-art structure on the Carver site. But here, I learned it was important to build it both from the inside-out and the outside-in.”. I had been taught that my role was to build school culture from the inside-out,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Students with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) or specific learning disabilities often have weaknesses with executive function, which makes it harder to organize their time and problem solve. Skills like knowing how to ask for help or organize a study group “are as important as anything else you’re going to learn,” said Tudisco.

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