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In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates

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Some students fill out a handout or watch a video online. Related: Tipping point: Can summit put personalized learning over the top? But the University of Maine at Presque Isle (or UMPI) is one of the first public universities in the nation to use proficiency-based learning. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

Founded in 1804 on hills beside the Hocking River in a city named Athens for its ambition to be a center of learning, O.U. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. staff were filming a short video to show how meal service would work in the fall (an “OHIO Eats” app to order; five pick-up points around campus).

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. Mariah exclaimed to Sharmin, after finding a promising video. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

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