The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. Trying to keep students in school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Known as the birthplace of country music, Bristol has seen rates of poverty and drug use rise significantly since the 2008 recession. Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2008 study in Los Angeles public schools found that those who didn’t pass algebra by ninth grade were half as likely to graduate as those who did. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Tom Willerer, Coursera’s chief product officer, left the company to become a venture capitalist. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Tressie McMillan Cottom on her new book on for-profits , Lower Ed , and on credentialing and inequality in a Q&A with Inside Higher Ed. The suit against the for-profit chain and its American InterContinental University was originally filed in 2008.” The startup lets parents book activities for kids via a mobile app.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank. The trend peaked during the recession that began in 2008, when UC hiked undergraduate tuition by nearly a third in a single year.

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