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How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students

Edsurge

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. In 2010, Rhode Island won a four-year, $75 million grant from Race to the Top. 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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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. But in 2010, the company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, announced that it would no longer offer a free version. In 2010, Sir Michael Barber published Deliverology 101: A Field Guide for Educational Leaders.

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