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Acceleration Academies Appoints Kelli Campbell as New Chief Executive Officer

eSchool News

Acceleration Academies provides the necessary supports to help remove obstacles so that students can not only graduate from high school but be prepared for post-secondary and job success. I am tremendously excited for the opportunity to support the mission and help expand the number of students that we serve.”

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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

Dangerously Irrelevant

Back in January 2014, I noted that. Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Lower life success.

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Colorado hybrid school taps into personalized learning

eSchool News

The number of high school students being held back a grade dropped in the 2014-15 school year by nearly two-thirds—from 19 down to 7. And, the high school completion rate for secondary classes as well as college-credit bearing courses increased as well through PGA’s concurrent enrollment program with local colleges.

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When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk

The Hechinger Report

But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In It’s better to be out here than sitting behind a desk listening to a teacher talk.”.

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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

The Hechinger Report

Limiting which Native students get financial assistance is especially significant, given the rising cost of post-secondary degrees. Without tribal status and consequent financial aid, Perrantes owed $27,000 in student loans after finishing her associate degree in clean energy technologies at Washington’s Shoreline Community College in 2014.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

Jordan Mickens, who spent his first year as a teacher at Castlemont High School in 2014, said he vividly remembers the technology divide his students faced compared with those in the wealthy areas surrounding Oakland. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To