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The Awkward Truth About ‘Free College’—It Isn’t Truly Free

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But as soon as more people showed up to campuses in 2015, Tennessee higher ed leaders discovered a problem: Students were surprised by the additional costs of going to college. For example, in the 2017 cohort, 26 percent of white participants graduated on time, compared to only 9 percent of Black participants.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Online Grade Portals.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Nellie Mae passed on the money to the Portland-based Great Schools Partnership, which used it to coordinate The New England Secondary School Consortium, a coalition advocating for proficiency-based diplomas, among other things. (Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.) That view is shared by policymakers like Rep.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Demanding that schools teach “the right skills” is also one of many examples of an ongoing “innovation” fixation , of how industry is pressing the education system to bend to its needs. There are other markets to pursue, after all – markets in Mexico , Gaza , Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria , for example.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

For this story, reporters analyzed every available open-enrollment charter application approved between 2005 and 2015 — the decade after Katrina. Once the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) approves charters in Louisiana, the applications are generally set aside and ignored.

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Education Technology and the Future of Academic Freedom

Hack Education

Protests at Evergreen College in Washington , for example. For its part, the Justice Department indicated that it would investigate what it deemed to be free speech violations on campuses – at Pierce College , for example, and at Georgia Gwinnett College. Again and again and again. Protests at Reed College in Oregon.