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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. In 2014, Albemarle County students had the second highest SAT scores among 133 school divisions in Virginia in critical reading and the third highest SAT scores for writing and math. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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

The Hechinger Report

Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 Nobody noticed.”.

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

The Hechinger Report

There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. Shortly after leaving that post, Riley planted his skeptic’s flag with an oft-cited blog post titled, “Don’t Personalize Learning.”.

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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. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It Whether the Trump administration will approach the case differently is unclear.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Fewer than 20 percent of her classmates who entered San Jose State in 2014 finished in four years — less than half the national average. Many states have resorted to enforcement actions, lawsuits and new laws to crack down on for-profit colleges and universities and loan-servicing companies they say cheat or mislead students.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” $100,000. . ” asks Education Dive.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” “Head of Savannah College of Art and Design was the top-paid college leader in 2014,” says The Wall Street Journal. .” More on AB 165 from the ACLU , which also opposes the proposed law.