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5 Ideas to Improve Rural Education in America

The CoolCatTeacher

The need for more rural education advocacy. Daisy spent her last 4 years in public education (2011-2015) as a “Turnaround Principal” of a Rural, Isolated, Pre-K-12 Public School. .” In today’s show, we’ll discuss: Promoting more broadband access. Daisy testified in front of the FCC in Washington, D.C.

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Why are wealthier students getting lower prices than their low-income peers?

The Hechinger Report

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” he asks.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says. percentage points since 2011, the federal data show. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 percentage points.

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Bullied by the badge?

The Hechinger Report

The arrests at Terry High School, in a suburban district on the outskirts of Jackson, Mississippi, are part of a growing trend across the U.S. These arrests can have dire consequences, suggests a 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute. “It brought me down as a freshman and lowered my self-esteem.”. Department of Education.

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

School officials are often surprised by their own spending trends, once they see them. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. In California, outside researchers tracked the state dollars to the school level and gave advocacy groups a smoking gun.

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One of the worst states at caring for low-income babies and toddlers

The Hechinger Report

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. Louisiana is on par with national trends in how it spends its federal block-grant money, the Center for Law and Social Policy found.