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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

So, how can educational institutions offer a personalized learning environment for students without having to divide them into smaller groups based on their interests and level and get a separate teacher for each group? According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. Online games and assessments.

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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

The Hechinger Report

It’s particularly tempting to overlook this latter group because of the rapid decline in teen pregnancies over the last 25 years. Child Trends analysis of NSFG 2011-15 data, accessed through the National Center for Health Statistics. One is special-needs students. Another is teen moms. But it is hardly a problem solved.

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Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students

The Hechinger Report

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Throughout the city, the black male graduation rate jumped from 46 percent in 2010 to 69 percent in 2018. “It shows that it works.”

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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

The Hechinger Report

Dave Kieffer, principal analyst,Tambellini Group. There are complexities to it that are different on purpose,” said Dave Kieffer, principal analyst at the higher education research and advisory firmthe Tambellini Group. Those two groups can’t exist without each other, Abbott said. Tuminez became president of UVU in 2018.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Nationwide, high schools offering credit recovery used online courses 71 percent of the time, according to a 2018 U.S. Staff say that they try to be strategic with locations, setting up shop within strip malls and sites that are easy for students to access and that are close to other resources like the public library.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Community and business groups around the country share the same fear. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Credit: John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”.

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The pandemic knocked many Native students off the college track

The Hechinger Report

Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. racial group. Credit: Andi Murphy for The Hechinger Report. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, Newcomb staff started calling students to check on their wellbeing. “It

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