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Adapting to the New Classroom

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The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017. Absent students can join classrooms through robotic telepresence. Canvas LMS ?

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Me: pic.twitter.com/gmb3Oigcv0 — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) October 5, 2017. pic.twitter.com/yehgZ82br6 — Shahien Nasiripour (@nasiripour) October 5, 2017. Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Or maybe her announcement itself was comedy?

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” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Student-Loan Borrowers , by Age Group, Amount Owed, and Repayment Status, 2017.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. .”

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” Via The Student Loan Report : “Halfway Through 2017, Here Are the Best & Worst Student Loan Servicers.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” Because everyone’s just dying to interact with the LMS through their home surveillance device. The Business of Student Loans.

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Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Quartz : “The robot that takes your job should pay taxes , says Bill Gates.” ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech.