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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

The Hechinger Report

If you’re cobbling together jobs at different universities to make ends meet, you don’t have the time to do the work you want to with your students,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten. It’s not fair to them — we know that. But it’s also not fair to the students who are relying on them to be focused on the classroom and to keep them going.”

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

Digital Promise

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. When an educator is unprepared and unable to access high-quality resources to meet our unique learners’ needs, the system penalizes the educator. We need to make a change.

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

eSchool News

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% For students who may not have access to these tools and are near an Ancora Education partner school, access to computer labs is available at no charge. Learn more at www.ancorahigh.com.

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

EdNews Daily

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. A few weeks after the first meeting, Shark Tank called me with a request to send in a an eye-catching and creative video pitch. Since working with Mark, the company has expanded into 20 new sites throughout the country.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. ” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

For two years we’ve had sort of a petri dish of experimenting with learning online,” said Anant Agarwal, chief platform officer of the online program management company 2U and former CEO of edX, the online provider created by MIT and Harvard and sold last year to 2U for $800 million. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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Bring Experts to Your Class Easily with Nepris

Ask a Tech Teacher

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Set up a virtual meeting by answering a series of questions designed to find the right expert for your needs. As a guest, I had most (maybe all) of the tools available to the classroom teacher including sharing the screen, audio, and chat.