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How success coaches anticipate and tackle college students’ challenges

The Hechinger Report

Through the help of the school’s success coaches, she navigated the school, avoided unnecessary courses for her career plan and took advantage of different resources. Nationally, the number has dropped by 37 percent since 2010 — nearly 2.6 percent, or by more than 1.5 million students.

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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. Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals. At this point in time, I think it is too early to know,” she said.

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

The Hechinger Report

I would have been a dropout.”. This partnership-oriented approach is difficult work, participants acknowledge, but they say it is precisely what makes Say Yes both a sustainable model and one that addresses the holistic needs of an under-resourced community. I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time.

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

The Hechinger Report

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. More than two-thirds of them are district-run schools.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. And there’s never enough [financial] resources … [so] the system is only going to do what families push for.”.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. ECOT refuses to pay.

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