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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

Edsurge

But this strategy had a fundamental error. Likewise, higher education institutions have tried various strategies to boost student enrollment but haven’t stepped back to ask, “Who is not completing applications?” Census Bureau and school features from the Common Core of Data maintained by the U.S. Department of Education.

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As states push for news ways of learning, some kids and parents feel left behind

The Hechinger Report

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. This walkout is just the beginning,” Ragan Toppan, a student at Deering High , wrote in a Hechinger Report op-ed last week.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life. These courses cover teaching strategies, language acquisition, effective communication with students, and much more. Being able to provide this experience to learners because of today’s technology is incredibly rewarding as a teacher.

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Student voice: My journey from Kentucky’s rural poverty to Wellesley — and across the empathy gap

The Hechinger Report

Related: More than five years after adopting Common Core, Kentucky’s black-white achievement gap is widening. When I joined the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, which works to elevate student voice in education research, policy and advocacy across Kentucky, I wrote a piece about poor students needing more from policymakers. “As

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Amazon, Ed. Organizations Launch Blitz for “Growth Mindset” in Math

Marketplace K-12

The belief that students benefit academically from having a “ growth mindset ” has spread quickly from the research arena to classrooms, and now education companies selling tech products to schools and advocacy organizations are aggressively promoting the concept, too. Teachers Nurture Growth Mindsets in Math.

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New York’s upstate cities have some of the worst schools in the country

The Hechinger Report

If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. You can see the national Common Core standards in action at Franklin.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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