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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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ReUp Education Raises $6 Million Series A to Help College Dropouts Return

Edsurge

Often, she says, a life event usually interrupts their studies—starting a family or a parent becomes ill, for example—and the CEO of ReUp Education says students shouldn’t suffer for it. “It Our data tells us that 90 percent of them still have a dream of earning their degree,” Horn says.

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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? It’s relatively easy to come up with pedagogical and data systems that help students recall and regurgitate a little better.

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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. For example, a French grammar course centered on future tenses can have the following competencies: Recognize to form of future tenses in French. ILPs display learning data to ease teachers’ and school administrators’ work. Key takeaways.

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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

Ask a Tech Teacher

Key benefits of Measuring Up include: introduction of concepts by connecting what students will learn to what they may already know and to real-world examples. Data on Measuring Up. For example, the National Dropout Prevention Center conducted a year-long study of the Measuring Up program and its impact on student outcomes.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

Edsurge

And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. What’s an example of something that for-profits at the time were doing well? But George and I recognize that higher ed is terrible at owning its own data. Even within institutions, we're terrible at data.

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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. Employers are the ones defining which skills they value, and they can provide a “treasure trove” of data around whether the Imbellus assessment works and how it works, she says. So what about the schools?

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