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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

By 2016, annual expenses had begun outpacing operating revenues by $14 million. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. When Steve Thorsett crunched the numbers, things looked grim.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

Edsurge

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom.

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

And that knowledge, she believes — combined with new strategies to help students regulate their emotions — has contributed to a 43 percent drop in the number of children referred for discipline from 2014 to 2016, according to school data. The number edged back up in 2016-17 to 682 incidents.). Progress was swift.

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After a tough but promising freshman year, Dartmouth student tackles change at elite campuses

The Hechinger Report

President Donald Trump issued new guidelines this month that, if followed, would only make the situation more acute: he is aiming to reverse Obama administration policies that called on universities to consider race in admissions. “The from Harvard in 2016. The peaceful, rural campus of Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. ” Edsurge points to new guidelines for education companies participating in Y Combinator ’s startup accelerator program. Inside Higher Ed on the results of the 2016 Campus Computing Survey."