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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. The number of master’s degrees alone that are being conferred by universities is up by 66 percent since 2000 , and has tripled since 1970. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

The amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom (“seat time”) doesn’t matter, nor does the number of credits they’ve accumulated. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 In 2007, Maine’s then-commissioner, Susan Gendron, invited DeLorenzo to speak at a summer conference for superintendents in Bar Harbor.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Community/ecological psychology , alluded to throughout our description of how to address the needs of the entire family, provides valuable information concerning prevention of family problems, building networks of social support and empowerment through advocacy efforts. Carr, E.G. (2007b). Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 9, 3-14.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

It’s the first week of school at Milwaukee Collegiate Academy, a charter high school Fuller founded in 2003 that’s housed in a low-slung concrete warehouse just a five-minute drive from the North Division campus. It’s a strategy Fuller views as a necessary contradiction, but that others say has undermined his credibility. The trade-off.

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