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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA).

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Twilight of income-share agreements to pay for college?

The Hechinger Report

In 2016 Purdue University announced an income-share agreement program as a new guinea pig experiment in which students could get money for college in exchange for a share of their future earnings. The company provided ISAs to help people move into higher-paying cities where they could earn more. Since 2021 at least four have been sued.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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Educational Leadership for Social Good

EdTechTeam

EdTechTeam is a California Benefit Corporation , dedicated to effecting positive change in schools, and currently supporting a number of advocacy programs including the Our Voice Academy and the nonprofit Student Voice Foundation. The title of her session alone resonated with me. FRAMEWORKS AND STANDARDS.

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As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

The Hechinger Report

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. With worker shortages hitting industries nationwide, their companies — and many states’ economies — depend on it. “No

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How One District Went All-in on a Tutoring Program to Catch Kids Up

MindShift

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. When the district started their program in 2020, they were able to use Title I funding because they focused on Title I schools.

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Mini-Conference for Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries - Wednesday, June 17th #library20

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Cindy Aden has been the Washington State Librarian since 2016.