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Facing Pressure on Enrollment, Will Colleges Support More Transfer Students?

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They may intend to earn two years’ worth of general education credits at more affordable rates before transferring to a four-year college or university. In 2015-16, community colleges enrolled more than a third of dependent undergraduate students whose families earned less than $20,000 a year.

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Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

The Hechinger Report

The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. A monitor she is wearing as part of a PE project is going off, informing her she has reached her resting heart rate, and cueing her to make a note of her current activity.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

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Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Deb : Using the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) data from 2015/2016 school year to the 2018/2019. Learn more about the SLIDE study: SLIDE Project SLIDE State Survey On Facebook and Twitter Kachel, Debra E. 2021, July).

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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve

The Hechinger Report

In 2015, a mere 25 percent of high school seniors were proficient in the subject, according to the National Center for Education Statistics , which produces the most reliable data on academic competency. After the June 2017 Regents, 25 of the 41 students who had repeatedly failed the state exam passed — a rate of 61 percent.

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FOLLOW THE MONEY: FUNDING INNOVATION

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The proposed bond projects include $500,000 in improvements to elementary STEM facilities and $17 million for improvements to school technology. In other locales, it may be possible to negotiate very low rates for student wireless devices and services, which they could use both in and out of school.

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98 Percent of U.S. Public School Districts Connected to High-Speed Broadband, But 2.3 Million Students Still Left Behind

Education Superhighway

Since 2015, the amount invested in Wi-Fi nearly doubled to $2.9 billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019. In Connecticut, a blended learning program with the tech industry allows students to earn their high school diploma and a STEM associate’s degree, increasing retention and graduation rates.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Newkirk believes that his model will work for other STEM fields, including chemistry and physics. The system sends students a text or e-mail 24 to 48 hours after a class, with one multiple-choice question about the material.

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