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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. But I thought [online learning] is a card we can play. And what were my other cards?

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

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Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

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As a state, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind,” said Alex Hermida, senior research analyst at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and chair of a state-led group that is tackling the challenge. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. High cost of dropping out.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

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When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. Black parents hold more student debt than parents or nonparents of any other racial or ethnic group. In addition, I had $30,000 in student debt. In recent years, as U.S. student loan debt climbed to $1.6

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Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance’ schools are the future of American high schools

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It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. All students need to be deeply known by the adults that are working with them to support their learning,” she said. Based on what you know.

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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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In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. It wasn’t always this way.

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