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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

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That F often transposed into poor work reports or lateral/downward movements in the company. University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008), pp. Pear Press, San Francisco, 2008). What happened to the brain with limitless potential? billion annually.

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Making the American Dream a Reality for Underserved Students

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The subprime lending crisis of 2008, however, was a clear example of people being sold the American Dream without being given the tools to realize it. Collectively, college dropouts owe a staggering $1.35 In just one year (2010), the cost of college dropouts was $4.5 The same phenomenon is true in higher education.

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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

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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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

A two-year pilot program for a year-round, after-school theater club at Yung Wing was underwritten by Freddie and Myrna Gershon, a philanthropically minded theater-world couple (Freddie is chairman and CEO of the licensing company Music Theatre International). Bush-era No Child Left Behind policies and the 2008 recession.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

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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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

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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