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Redesigning, Reimagining, and Rethinking American Education

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The outcome of this commission is Learning 2025: Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education, an AASA initiative that calls for holistic redesign of the public school system by 2025. Domenech has served as Executive Director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association since July 2008. Dr. Daniel A.

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OPINION: What health care can teach educators about the difference between ‘equal’ and ‘equitable’

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Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. Outcomes are encouraging. He served as Secretary of Education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2008 to 2013. City Connects has shown strong results.

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Century-old ‘work college’ model regains popularity as student debt continues to increase

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Forty-four percent of students who attended four-year work colleges between 2008 and 2013 had to take out loans, compared to 53 percent at public universities, and 64 percent at private, nonprofit colleges. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

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Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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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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OPINION: The crisis in black student debt was dire before coronavirus — now it’s more urgent than ever

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Default occurs after a borrower is 270 days late, and it is the most disastrous financial outcome of student debt. What’s more, protective factors like degree completion or high family income, which would normally shield borrowers from adverse debt outcomes, don’t necessarily protect black borrowers.

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A Skills Gap From College to Career Doesn't Exist. It's the Awareness Gap We Need to Fix.

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Unemployment/Underemployment: Unemployment for recent college graduates has improved in recent years (the unemployment rate currently hovers around around 5 percent , compared to 9 percent back in 2008). high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” At almost $1.3 The awareness gap is easy to fix.

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