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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

Karolewics cites the contrast between the sections offered in 2010 at Wallace State and last fall to illustrate the impact of the change. In 2010, there were 17 sections of developmental English courses. Colleges system-wide increased tutoring and options for remote access. Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals.

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How success coaches anticipate and tackle college students’ challenges

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Nationally, the number has dropped by 37 percent since 2010 — nearly 2.6 Although they’re still committed to getting people in the door and increasing enrollment, there’s a heightened focus on assessing how to keep students on track, college completion and students’ achievements after graduating. percent, or by more than 1.5

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

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I would have been a dropout.”. One thing that encouraged Radford was that the Say Yes scholarships were going to be available regardless of income, providing a path to induce middle-class families to return to a school system in which, in 2010-11, nearly eight out of 10 students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. Her department first saw the data on how few students of color were making it through remedial classes several years ago, and started making changes in the fall of 2010.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year. Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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In 2010, Rhode Island won a four-year, $75 million grant from Race to the Top. She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”). Karla Phillips, a policy director at Excel in Ed, told me that both personalized learning and charter schools have “flexibility” as their aim.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

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Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. A 2010 state audit of the program reached many of the same conclusions. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.