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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

And one district in particular, the Putnam County School System in Cookeville , decided to push student ownership over higher education learning even further—with an extensive, dual-enrollment college credit program for high schoolers. Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator. We do have some distance learning.

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

The Hechinger Report

The program is aimed at helping students feel connected to each other and their community in a place where — as in so many rural areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic and the 2008 recession — connectedness and a shared sense of purpose have been in short supply.

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New routes to success in learning are popping up around the country

The Hechinger Report

The act was last reauthorized in 2008, although Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, has stated he wants to get that done this year. Delece Smith-Barrow. Free college, even for adults.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Her tenure at Collins has overlapped with two developments that have contributed to a drop in paddling incidents: the state legislature’s 2019 partial ban on corporal punishment — of students with disabilities — and a global pandemic that interfered with in-person learning. keeps a paddle used in the county’s schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Edsurge : “ ​Rhode Island ’s Plans to Become a ‘Lab State’ for Personalized Learning.” The suit against the for-profit chain and its American InterContinental University was originally filed in 2008.” ” Education in the Courts. ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

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. Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. ” It’s an inevitable move, or so the story goes.

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