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Achieving Equity Through Systems, Strategies, and Educational Justice

edWeb.net

Located in the suburbs north of Seattle, and close to the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, the Northshore School District’s students are 60% White, 17% Asian, and 13% Hispanic, with another 9% identifying as mixed race. Systems, Strategies, and an Equity Framework. Ayva Thomas. About the Moderator.

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A Billionaire Benefactor, a Disputed Ballot Issue and a Community College Turnaround

Edsurge

Graduation rates for first-time, full-time students more than tripled from 2008 to 2016. Things changed in 2001, when then-president Carl Nelson died unexpectedly, leaving the campus and its leadership in shock. Since those days though, Texarkana College has earned a new reputation. It was just like everything was fine and dandy.”

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Gaps in financial aid, funding contribute to growing number of Georgians with college loans and no college degree

The Hechinger Report

Since 2008, average tuition increased from $4,700 to $8,400. The recession in 2008 caused state tax revenue to plummet and accelerated a decline in higher education funding. In 2008, a Board of Regents study estimated the state could feasibly establish a needs-based aid program for $40 million that would benefit 26,000 students.

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Live and Interactive with Roger Schank on "Our Broken Education System"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. In order to get computers to learn, Schank realized, they would have to have expectations and they would have to know when new events failed to meet those expectations.

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