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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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

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Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. 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. Weekly Update.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

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CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. Sophia Jones-Redmond, superintendent of the district, which serves students from ages 13 to 21, said that a blended-learning model has been a major factor in this success. Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report.

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

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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. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Bush-era No Child Left Behind policies and the 2008 recession.

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

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Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. Related: More Hispanics going to college: The bad news? High cost of dropping out.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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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. Lehigh University has started hiring faculty for a new college of health policy , part of a plan to add 1,800 students. Will there be more?

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Asking too much of high school graduates but not enough of businesses that employ them

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Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and the city’s Chief Education Officer Janice Jackson hope to raise a million dollars for the “ Learn. The policy calls for students to present an acceptance letter from a college, a branch of the armed services, an employer, a trade school or a “gap-year” program.