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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

It will not only know a particular student is good at French grammar, for example. Based on the competencies teachers want to teach or assess, the system enables them to tag the course content accordingly. They also offer at-a-glance information about course attendance, course completion rates, and grades.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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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% Students go through a guided, asynchronous course experience, monitored by course coaches and student success champions, that is designed to move students through their coursework efficiently.

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Retrieval practice, CBE, and what we value regarding student learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here is an example third grade mathematics proficiency scale [intentionally anonymized]: And, once again, we have to ask ourselves the tougher question of ‘ Proficiency scaling and student leveling ON WHAT? Of course students need to have factual knowledge and procedural fluency.

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OPINION: Misguided payment policies that fuel the college-dropout trap

The Hechinger Report

Consider the example of a student from a low-income family whose parent becomes sick, forcing him to divert tuition money home and leaving him with an outstanding account balance. That student might be barred from registering for courses until the balance is paid down. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. And to what end?

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

Edsurge

Some scenarios play out underwater, for example, or in a forest. Of course you still need to teach subjects. Developed with learning science, psychometrics and artificial intelligence, Imbellus is a digital, scenario-based assessment set in the context of the natural world. Kids have to learn something,” she emphasizes.

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