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Spreading First Aid for Teens’ Mental Health by Training Adults to Help

MindShift

When kids struggle, their emotional problems often unfold in the classroom, affecting their ability to concentrate and straining interactions with teachers and peers. Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. Wardrip completed the training in June. and “Are you in danger?”. Spreading the Word.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. DeMillo sees MOOCs as unbundling academic content, specifically extracting lectures and the possibility of assessment from the rest of university functions.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. I felt like I needed mirrors in the classroom.”.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests. From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. And many educators, both in high school and college, had trouble accurately assessing their students’ progress.

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Twenty-one and in high school

The Hechinger Report

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. Related: Presentations and portfolios take the place of tests for some students. “But high schools?

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. Teachers are supported by three “teachers on special assignment,” who stepped out of the classroom to provide full-time instructional technology support.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014.