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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2014) in “ Confidence in prior knowledge, self-efficacy, interest and prior knowledge: Influences on conceptual change ” sheds light on prior knowledge as what students bring into the learning environment – a mix of accurate scientific understanding and misconceptions about a specific topic. Schreiner, T., & Rasch, B.

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One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, the community colleges have been offering training that’s comparatively cheap or free, faster paced than typical credential programs and at places and times convenient for people who have families and jobs. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. People want that.”.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. An experimental psychologist by training, Logue designed an experiment. Department of Education.

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

Marketplace K-12

In 2014 K12 suffered a big blow when the 10,800-student Agora Cyber Charter School in Pennsylvania ditched the private management company in favor of managing its own operations. In July, Catapult Learning, which provides Title I and dropout-prevention services, announced that it would merge with Special Educational Services Inc.,

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How to help struggling young readers

The Hechinger Report

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Yet we routinely only prepare between 60 and 70 percent of kids to be successful readers.”

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

A 2014 paper reviewing the impact of recovery programs, mostly at four-year colleges, found lower incidences of relapse for involved students and slightly higher GPAs and graduation rates compared to their peers overall. Typically, the sentences include a work or education component, making Skagit Valley a natural fit.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Degree inflation. A ‘1-percent market’. Closing the gap.

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