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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

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How has Putnam County created partnerships with universities and institutions in Tennessee to essentially allow students to dual-enroll in these courses? It's setting those kids up with high school credits that's going to allow them to take more advantage of actual college courses in high school. How does tech fit into this?

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent.