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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

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. The number of all-important graduate school applications from abroad is down for the second year in a row, according to the Council of Graduate Schools, after increasing every year since 2003.

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

The Hechinger Report

In a recent survey of the state’s superintendents conducted by the University of Southern Maine, roughly a quarter of respondents said they planned to stick with a proficiency-based diploma, even though the law no longer requires it. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Today with Howard Blumenthal - "Paying for School" with Andreas Schleicher #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In addition to our regular LearningRevolution.com conference sessions today (see the schedule in your time zone here ), we have our second show of the weekly interview series " REINVENTING.SCHOOL ," being held live on Thursdays at 4:00 pm US-EDT and hosted by Howard Blumenthal. We hope you will join us. See you "online!"