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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

eSchool News

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% Visit us at mheducation.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter. Ancora High School is an online high school that offers a Texas high school diploma and is accredited by Cognia.

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Five-Way Merger Creates New Illuminate Education: Bringing K-12 Educators the Broadest Choice of Student Achievement and Personalized Learning Offerings

techlearning

The merger combines leading formative assessment and data platforms (Illuminate Education, IO Education, SchoolCity and Alpine Achievement) with a leading formative item bank provider (Key Data Systems). Illuminate’s award-winning Education Intelligence Platform consists of a product suite featuring data, analytics, assessments and reporting.

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Spreading First Aid for Teens’ Mental Health by Training Adults to Help

MindShift

Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. She also learned how to assess for suicide risk by asking questions like, “Are you having thoughts of hurting yourself?” You can find her @dr_fraga on Twitter. . Wardrip completed the training in June. and “Are you in danger?”.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

DeMillo sees MOOCs as unbundling academic content, specifically extracting lectures and the possibility of assessment from the rest of university functions. Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). Twitter’s also a fine place to chat (I’m @BryanAlexander ).

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Looking Back & Remembering @Joe_Bower @DevenKBlack @BobSprankle

The Innovative Educator

He was one of my 25 favorites on Twitter as well. If you want to learn about progressive ideas in the areas of grading, assessment, and homework, check out Joe's book, De-Testing + De-Grading Schools , one of his talks , and his blog. You may also appreciate his 140Edu Talk where he explains high school dropouts is not a crisis.

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How To Make A Civics Education Stick

MindShift

“What’s the dropout rate in some places? On the civics portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly called the “Nation’s Report Card,” students of color and low-income students have consistently scored lower than their white, wealthier counterparts. Forty percent?

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

Every fall, each student is tested to assess any gaps in skills and knowledge. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. In the year leading up to consolidation, the commission held town hall meetings in person and on Twitter to build community support for the new plan. Others feared violence between students.

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