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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Let’s start a movement.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”.

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The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students

The Hechinger Report

But she has no interest in the food industry. Administrators also told the family they could connect with the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services or apply for Vocational Rehabilitation, a federally funded service that helps people with disabilities access higher education and employment.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”). A spokeswoman for Summit said in an email, “We only use information for educational purposes.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”. It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? .” $100,000.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Via The Guardian : “ Essays for sale : the booming online industry in writing academic work to order.” .” More on AB 165 from the ACLU , which also opposes the proposed law.