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Improving the quality of a higher educational institution

Linways Technologies

Dropout rate : How many students dropped out without completing the course. Retention rate : How many students stayed as opposed to dropouts. Total classrooms and schedules per subject and study program: the number of classrooms, and thereby student strength per department. Number of teachers per department.

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Four Reasons Why Students Don’t Receive the Degrees They’ve Earned

Edsurge

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” The best-intentioned policies just get stuck on the books,” Ajinkya says. We know these are competencies you can accumulate in general studies or liberal arts, which are teaching you a general curriculum.”

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The Digital Library’s Best-Kept Secret

Edsurge

It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. UPCEA’s eDesign Collaborative ), I spent hours doing my own personal research on my university’s open access policy and scouring the library website. The Double-Dipping Problem.

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Thriving SAT Scores: Meet Shaan Patel, Founder of Prep Expert and Shark Tank Winner

EdNews Daily

The test reveals in-context areas of social studies and science in reading passages. I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. Please tell me about the motivation behind your first SAT prep book. Real world problems. No more experimental sections.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

The Altus network relies on a self-paced, independent study program and a personalized, blended learning model they’ve built up over a quarter century. The school is part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative schools in Southern California that provides an independent study program based on a blended learning model.

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How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?

The Hechinger Report

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. Maria Romo-Gonzalez, a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, worried she would have to withdraw from classes last month after her internet kept going down as she studied from home. Credit: Maria Romo-Gonzalez.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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