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What Happens When A Public University Buys a For-Profit Online One?

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When leaders of Purdue University wanted to move into online education, they took the unusual step of buying an existing online university, a big one with 30,000 students. It’s hard to think of another example of two more different higher education cultures placed under the same name.

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

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At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Bailey Fraser, 15 (left), and her stepsister Leah Kimball, 15, volunteer with Edible Bethel during their service learning block. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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After Layoffs, Math Curriculum Developer Reasoning Mind Sells to Weld North Education

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Reasoning Mind , a Houston-based nonprofit, was acquired by Imagine Learning. Imagine is owned by Weld North Education, a private equity firm that has amassed a portfolio of more than 10 education technology companies over the years. The other slipped by the newswire with little more than a peep. Later, as the U.S. and Russia.

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How Daily Farm Work and Outdoor Projects Make Learning in High School Better for Teens

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Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report). Called the Telstar Freshman Academy, or TFA, it involves all its district’s ninth graders in a hands-on learning method that uses outdoor-based projects and community-building activities as ways to teach across several disciplines. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report ).

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OPINION: Why Americans should not blame their local college or university for the shortfalls of the elite

The Hechinger Report

In just the past eight years, American confidence in higher education has dropped from 57 percent to 36 percent, with more saying they have “very little” confidence than a “great deal.” The “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal in 2019 perhaps epitomizes what bothers Americans about elite higher education.

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