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Feelings During FLOW-Related Learning

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Student engagement, described as the tendency to be behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively involved in academic activities, is a key construct in motivation research (Thijs & Verkuyten, 2009). Encouraging Positive Student Engagement and Motivation: Tips for Teachers ).

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Student loan default rates inch down as for-profit sector contracts

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percent of students who graduated or left school during the 2009-10 year. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. And it’s a whopping 4.6 “But there’s a bureaucracy.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Ray has served as Chair of the National Dropout Prevention Network and was the chief learning officer for Penn Foster, a global leader in online education. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Couch surfing, living in cars: Housing insecurity derails foster kids’ college dreams 

The Hechinger Report

In 2009, for example, the state passed legislation requiring many schools to give them priority for on-campus housing. Since then, California lawmakers have passed a slew of budget expansions and laws to benefit students with foster care experience.

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Colorado hybrid school taps into personalized learning

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Since opening in 2009 as a credit recovery and dropout prevention school, PGA has transformed into a small, personalized school serving a mix of former homeschoolers and students coming from traditional schools.

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

The Hechinger Report

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Instructors Kyle Garvin and Hannah Balagot, both professional theater performers, teach choreography to students at Yung Wing School.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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