Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That behavior seems to be headed for the history books. A high school dropout cannot tap on an app and get the help they need if it involves more than one organization. In the “old days”—ten years ago—those of us in the boomer generation would expect young people to suck it up and eventually do things the “old way.” It's not working."

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. He could have been another dropout casualty. After years of decline, the rates have begun to rise.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Being so hot also means that the industry uses the term “learning analytics” in a variety of ways. Don’t let the industry confuse you. have been part of the “Horizon Report” for a while. Benefits of learning analytics.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And back in 1998 he had even co-written a book complaining about how, in his view, multiculturalism was leading to group-think, and how he wanted to “reverse the tragic disintegration of American universities and restore true academic excellence.” They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

That’s the core argument of a new book by Julia Freeland Fisher, director of education at the innovation-focused Christensen Institute. Creating adult networks for students. The mission of most schools is to expand what students know. But maybe they should care about the people students know, too. Networks matter. Exposure is enough.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But we don’t know how to go about it right now and as an industry we are picking and choosing what feels right as opposed to using evidence-based practices.”. Meghan Groves shows off a book in which her students have chronicled their hopes and dreams for their future. Related: A school where character matters as much as academics.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

We will also discuss favorite online resources, books, and activities for learning, with a focus on materials that empower learners to work things out on their own. A strong push for unfettered play and free time for children will also be presented. This is coupled with free online learning, career based mentoring and apprenticeship.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

That’s the driving theme in the newest book from Dan Pink, the speechwriter, TV producer and acclaimed author of bestsellers “Drive” and “To Sell is Human.” His latest book, “ When ,” draws on research from psychology, biology and economics to explore how timing impacts every aspect of our lives—including of course, how we teach and learn.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2017

The education industry is often and rightly called a small world, because when everyone is working toward a common good, we tend to cross paths often and become fast friends. And somehow during her whirl-wind tours, she keeps writing more best-selling books. I love meeting people in the education biz. What are they passionate about?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Her first assignment was to write a paragraph about a half-page book excerpt. “I Step 8: If you have extra time, work on your passion project or read a book of your choice. Many of these shorter-term programs train students for industries such as manufacturing and auto body repair. I decided I just wasn’t smart enough.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. percent are Hispanic and 7.6

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In a dense, polemical book called “The Flickering Mind,” he warned of the industry’s tentacular reach into schools, steered by futurists such as Seymour Papert, the co-creator of the Logo programming language, who had a habit of proclaiming, every 20 years or so, that schools had 20 years left to either adapt or die.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A new book makes “ The Case Against Education.” Companies take it on faith that that a college degree is worth the handsome salaries graduates command; in contrast, dropouts suffer with little to show for their aborted time in school. It’s decidedly not something to give to a high-school junior looking to get into college. he laments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

California students spend an average of $2,020 a month, or $18,180 per nine-month academic year , on food, housing, books, supplies and transportation, a survey released in September by the California Student Aid Commission, or CSAC, found. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. This year, Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Several Pennsylvania universities and colleges have started scholarships for students from rural Schuylkill County, a onetime coal-producing area, using millions from a foundation set up by textile industry entrepreneur John E. Morgan, who came from there and who, with his wife, developed the waffle stitch used in thermal underwear.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” “ Do Medical Schools Still Need Books? And there’s more on for-profits and student loans in the research section below. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Will That Slow Its Momentum? ” asks Education Week.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” ” “Student marketplace Spitball has launched a token-based ‘ blockchain economy ’ that aims to switch up the e-learning industry and create a decentralised landscape for students,” says IBS Intelligence. Sounds legit.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

immigration debate for more than three decades, ever since immigrants began flocking to fill plentiful jobs in construction, landscaping and the restaurant industry. His death was one of a series of attacks on immigrants in the area, according to the journalist Mirta Ojito’s book on the killing.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Tressie McMillan Cottom on her new book on for-profits , Lower Ed , and on credentialing and inequality in a Q&A with Inside Higher Ed. Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” Galore has raised $1.65

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Support for paddling is common in Collins, a place where families have deep roots.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Tressie McMillan Cottom’s new book on for-profit higher ed reviewed by The New York Times. Via The Guardian : “ Essays for sale : the booming online industry in writing academic work to order.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“Dear Mrs. Trump” by Liz Phipps Soeiro – why the librarian refused the books the First Lady sent to her school. Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” The New York Times looks at “A Legal Industry Built on Private School Sex Abuse.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.” I’ve got Joshua Hunt’s new book The University of Nike sitting here on my desk. Here he is in The New York Times : “Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: College Athletics and Its Corporate Sponsors.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Coursera also brought on a new CEO : Jeff Maggioncalda, whose previous job was in the financial planning industry. ECOT refuses to pay.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This could be a problem for colleges and universities, about which a slew of opinion polls suggest Americans take a dim view at a time of campus speech controversies, athletic scandals, high dropout rates , sexual harassment and assault, comparatively generous pay for faculty and administrators and complaints about the competence of graduates.

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