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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

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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. Typically, students in-person do about 10 percent better than their peers who are enrolled in online coursework, Pigg noted.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

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Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I Since 2010, five rural hospitals have closed in Mississippi alone, and almost half of the state’s rural hospitals are at risk of closing.

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

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In 2010, Central Falls made national news again when the entire staff of the city’s only high school was fired as part of “turnaround” effort to raise its perennially low test scores. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. They’ve been through a lot,” said Rubio.

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STUDENT VOICES: Pay teachers more

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The school opened in 2010. Emilia Olson, an 11th-grade student at Palmetto Scholars Academy in North Charleston, S.C. Photo: Magdalena Slapik for The Hechinger Report. How would you describe your school? I came here in eighth grade. It serves sixth through 12 th grade. We have about 500 kids now. It’s really diverse.

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

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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.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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Intermediary funders and education-policy groups that depend on their grant dollars — including iNACOL, Excel in Ed, the Learning Accelerator, Big Picture Learning and Jobs for the Future — have, in turn, made personalized learning a priority. In 2010, Rhode Island won a four-year, $75 million grant from Race to the Top.

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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. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. A 2010 state audit of the program reached many of the same conclusions.