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3 Ways Big Data Can Soften the Campus Dropout Crisis

EdNews Daily

And like any major problem, this mass exodus of dropouts must be addressed sooner rather than later through innovative interventions. The “soft” predictors, those subtle hints that are precursors to student dropout. Social media engagement data analysis can assist in targeting potential dropouts before they disappear from your rosters.

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

The Hechinger Report

That information is based on a survey distributed to adjuncts who are AFT members and, through social media, to adjuncts who are not members of the union; 1,043 responded. Fewer than half of adjuncts say they’ve received the training they need to help students in crisis, the AFT survey found. It’s not fair to them — we know that.

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A Test Worth Teaching To? How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT

Edsurge

But if Kantar is fighting an uphill battle for Imbellus , the simulation-based assessment company she founded in 2016 and now manages, then a handful of venture capital firms are ready to fight it with her. million in a Series A financing round led by Owl Ventures, bringing the company’s funding to-date to $23.5

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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. This is action research on steroids!”

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How edtech is transforming bilingual education in the U.S.

eSchool News

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. Technology companies have, and will continue to, build products to support classrooms, but ultimately there is a policy call that must be made on the public end. Another great aspect of the U.S.

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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

The Hechinger Report

It’s not a retail company. It’s not a retail company. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”. A university analysis shows that this approach has sharply reduced dropout rates. And you can’t. It’s not a bank. And you can’t. It’s not a bank.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. And a third of this year’s high school seniors say they’re less likely to go to college when they graduate, according to a survey by the think tanks New America and Third Way. College enrollments have fallen.

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