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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

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Georgia State is one of a growing number of schools that have turned to big data to help them identify students who might be struggling – or soon be struggling – academically so the school can provide support before students drop out. Critics say there are potential downsides to monitoring student data so closely.

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University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

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This story was based on data from Tuition Tracker, a tool from The Hechinger Report. Looking at data from 2003 and 2012 for 448 small private colleges, it found that higher tuition discounts did not correlate with increased low-income or minority student enrollment. college or university.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. Related : One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. Thomas University. Department of Education.

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Amplify’s Been Quiet. Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018

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In 2000 he co-founded Wireless Generation, which pioneered the use of data, digital diagnostics and assessments to support students. It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. What’s the most frustrating things to you that hasn’t changed since 2010?

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

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ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. As Johnson settled in Clarksdale in 2010, the reasons for her to do that work in her adopted hometown multiplied. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. Amanda Johnson, Clarksdale Collegiate’s principal.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

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Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. Survey data show how these inequities play out. The Markup requested records from 26 school districts.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

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E-rate is the name commonly used to describe the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. million settlement paid by Hewlett Packard in 2010 over accusations of fraud. What can E-rate tell us about the relationship between politics and ed-tech?

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