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Kids Don’t Fail, Schools Fail Kids: Sir Ken Robinson on the 'Learning Revolution'

Edsurge

But in 2006, he gained recognition for something that no other TED speaker in history has done. And in this particular presentation, Robinson called out two schooling programs that, in his opinion, have each championed notions of “personalized learning” without relying heavily on technology.And The Schools That Are Doing This Well.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School. Pam Moran – Bio as submitted. Dr. Pamela R. million; a self-sustaining budget of $19.2

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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

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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Belonging and Believing: Transforming Remedial Math at Community Colleges

MindShift

The stark number of students not prepared for college work presents a two-fold dilemma for community colleges, one that is both financial and self-defeating, eating at the very purpose of community colleges’ existence. First, students who are enrolled in even one remedial course have a high chance of dropping out.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

In a presentation a few years ago, a top education-department administrator, Chief of Literacy Kerry Laster, wrote, “We retain students despite overwhelming research and practical evidence that retention fails to lead to improved student outcomes.” In that same year, 10 percent of all ninth graders were held back.

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

The Hechinger Report

The price of this free lunch, under a ceiling designed to look like a medicine wheel in the new Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, is to listen to a presentation about campus mental health services. When it’s over, there’s a dash for the buffet. As in the United States, they’re also practical.

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