The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.

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Dropout Report Advocacy Accessibility 119

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 “It’s not just about getting them in the door.

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Dropout Report Policies Data 101

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency. Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Karla Phillips, a policy director at Excel in Ed, told me that both personalized learning and charter schools have “flexibility” as their aim. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 106

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? The New York Times continues its coverage of the awfulness of tech companies’ employee policies : “Abuses Hide in the Silence of Nondisparagement Agreements.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via NPR : “ Trump ’s International Policies Could Have Lasting Effects On Higher Ed.” More about Trump’s immigration policies in a separate section below. And more about Trump and for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46