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

The Hechinger Report

He has an office, access to professional training and government-provided health insurance. 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. He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term.

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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. But educators still require support, and with savings in materials and time, school leaders need to make an investment in teacher training. Another great aspect of the U.S.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months.

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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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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

Then, he and half his team got Covid, forcing him to isolate in the basement of his girlfriend’s parents’ home nearby, disrupting his academics and prized time training with teammates. “I Becky Fein, director of training and engagement for Active Minds. I have been struggling to keep mentally strong.”.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

One way is through acquisitions like the one his university made of the Claremont School of Theology in California, or CST, which is being moved to the Salem, Oregon, campus of Willamette, just as private companies consolidate to increase their size and cost-effectiveness.

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