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Higher Ed’s Credit Transfer System Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way.

Edsurge

Such experiences are all too common for transfer students like Kevin, and many others, who we interviewed as we conducted research for our book “ Choosing College.” From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. But as they move, their credits don’t always follow.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

The rubrics and learning targets are now fixtures in each Montpelier classroom. In the four-column rubric for precalculus assessment, Machnik explained what it would take to be “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient” and “exemplary” in trigonometric equations. percent between 2009 and 2017. percent to 89.1

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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