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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

Related: Colleges start looking for ways to house and feed their students who are homeless. Previous Department of Education publications acknowledge that dropping out of college increases the likelihood of student loan default and poses a risk to the overall federal student loan portfolio. There is no time to waste.

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3 Practical Implications for Social Media and the Classroom

The PL2C Blog

After all, Social Media is here to stay; so districts may either choose to ignore it (and its users [read: students] by default), or embrace it. To enhance this curriculum content and augment student understanding, Alex allowed each 8th grade student to “hijack” the school’s Instagram feed during the last quarter of school.

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Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates

The Hechinger Report

Not just one but two public community colleges seemed to be feeding into a four-year state university, which was putting up lots of new buildings and staging big annual commencements. Related: Will colleges with sky-high default rates face consequences? Lots of students appeared to be graduating from area high schools.

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Heading into my new class

Bryan Alexander

In this post I’ll describe what I hope to achieve with the class: how I’m organizing it and what I expect. I’ll add the syllabus at the end. ( Here’s a post introducing the class.). I’ll follow up in another post with how the first class actually went. I’d like to blog about the experience.

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Heading into my new class

Bryan Alexander

In this post I’ll describe what I hope to achieve with the class: how I’m organizing it and what I expect. I’ll add the syllabus at the end. ( Here’s a post introducing the class.). I’ll follow up in another post with how the first class actually went. I’d like to blog about the experience.

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What it's like to teach in an active learning classroom

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Put a stack of post-it notes on your desk right now and see if your brain doesn't automatically start thinking of how to use it.) I told the student to tune in to the Zoom feed instead of missing class. I taught the classes remotely, and some students showed up in the room and put the Zoom feed on the big screens!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. Via Inside Higher Ed : “High Default Rates at New York For-Profit Colleges.” ” Via The Washington Post : “After backlash over plan to cut 13 humanities majors, U-Wisconsin campus drawing up second proposal.”