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Higher education in India is moving ahead on the global stage.

Linways Technologies

To make sense of what this means, higher education system with GER less than 15% is considered elite, where access to higher education is limited and is viewed as a privilege. India has seen a massive expansion in the higher education sector – an almost four-fold increase in enrolments and institutions since 2001.

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PROOF POINTS: 5 Questions for Daniel Koretz

The Hechinger Report

Perhaps nothing has remade American education so profoundly in my lifetime as the 2001 federal law that required states to assess all students every year. Imagine you were to go to a superintendent and say, “I’d like access to your data to see how badly inflated your scores are.” Daniel Koretz. They tell you, “No.”

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“Stuck in it until I die”: Parents get buried by college debt too

The Hechinger Report

Even when students take out their own loans, the Parent Plus loan program enables parents to borrow more to meet the full cost of college. From 2009 to 2019, the amount of Parent Plus loan money flowing to public universities each year more than doubled, to $6.6 Jay and Tina are among the 3.6 Department of Education.

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Tuesday Interview: The Truth About Testing with Jim Popham

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

2010) and Assessment for Educational Leaders (2006), Allyn & Bacon; The Truth About Testing (2001), Test Better, Teach Better (2003), Transformative Assessment (2008) and Instruction that Measures Up (2009) ASCD; America’s “Failing” Schools (2005) and Mastering Assessment (2006), Routledge; and Unlearned Lessons (2009) Harvard Education Press.

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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

That can be funding the institutions themselves; it also can be investing in financial aid,” said Debbie Cochrane, vice president of The Institute for College Access and Success, a national nonprofit. In 2009, state appropriations made up 61 percent of the general funding for USG institutions, while tuition accounted for nearly a third of it.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

Yet, the wealth of knowledge and experience that can be accessed through well structured professional development and collaboration opportunities. Accessed 18 Apr. 2001) Teacher efficacy: Capturing an elusive construct, Teaching and Teacher Education 17 (2001), pp. Accessed 20 Apr. Moore’s Law – Investopedia.”

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An upscale Florida auction yields millions for local preschool programs

The Hechinger Report

Since 2001, the upscale auction, part of Collier County’s annual Naples Winter Wine Festival, has raised more than $176 million for local children’s nonprofits, including dozens that benefit the children of Immokalee’s farmworkers, according to the Naples Children & Education Foundation, which hosts the festival.