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PBS to Present “Spotlight Education,” A Special Week of Programming Featuring Reports About America’s Students and New Models of Learning, September 12-17

EdNews Daily

In a one-hour special, FRONTLINE presents two films that build on its education reporting. “A American Graduate Day is a live, four-hour multiplatform broadcast, presented by WNET, that leverages the power and reach of public media to focus on those organizations and individual champions keeping kids on the path to graduation. .

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

There were 236 papers presented with the word “online” in their titles at this year’s meeting of the American Educational Research Association, compared to 158 the year before the pandemic — a nearly 50 percent increase. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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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

The Hechinger Report

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. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. He could have been another dropout casualty.

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