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K12 Inc. Names Stuart Udell, Former Catapult Learning Official, as CEO

Marketplace K-12

Major online education provider K12 Inc., a favorite target of critics of the for-profit school industry, has named former Catapult Learning official Stuart J. Udell most recently served as CEO of Catapult Learning Inc., He came back to Renaissance Learning in 2012, and served on its board of directors until 2014.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Online education, we’re still told, will be education’s disruptor.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses. One day in June 2012, Hernandez told him to leave. Second chance.

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With no silver bullet, innovation abounds at this bilingual high school

The Hechinger Report

But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. Nearly 60 percent of students in gifted education are white, according to the most recent federal data , compared to 50 percent of public school enrollment overall. Nationally, 3.3

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Twenty-one and in high school

The Hechinger Report

million — between the ages of 16 and 24 who have left school without receiving a diploma or its equivalent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. percent of students — roughly 2.5

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home.