Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. It’s my hope that these emerging policies will encourage the further development of promising online and blended learning models.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Meredith Kolodner: I guess I wasn’t surprised that they were doing it – they signaled that during the campaign – but it still is surprising, in that it goes against the evidence of who is getting hurt by current admissions policies. Tara García Mathewson: I agree. These are the ones that people are most upset about not getting into.

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APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank. I definitely want to be out of here in four years,” Soberano said. I definitely want to be out of here in four years,” Soberano said. “If

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APRIL 6, 2022

And during the 2020-21 academic year, UT adopted a policy allowing students to designate up to three of their courses to be graded as pass/fail , rather than with letter grades, Patterson said. It seemed like there needed to be a policy and expectation change in the face of an emergency situation,” Patterson said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent). Bush-era No Child Left Behind policies and the 2008 recession.

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MARCH 27, 2018

“This is a state that needs its brightest students to stay here over the long term so our economy grows, so that educational opportunities grow,” said Vincent Rossmeier, the director of policy for Tulane University’s Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives. “If It’s definitely been a blessing,” he said. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

“What’s the dropout rate in some places? ” And according to Jim Shon of the Hawaii Educational Policy Center, civics education needs to extend into college. “It definitely showed me that if you believe in something and you feel something is important, to not be afraid to voice it,” she says.

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AUGUST 28, 2022

I do think there are lessons to be learned from what’s going on in Maine right now,” said Jerome Lucido, executive director of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

“The Promise Neighborhoods’ goal was to replicate the work of Harlem Children’s Zone — a federal grant program to do in neighborhoods across the country what Geoffrey Canada did for Harlem,” said Megan Gallagher, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, a social and economic policy think tank.

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MindShift

JUNE 22, 2018

The school discipline policies in Broward County, Fla., The next two decades were the era of the hards: “zero tolerance” policies. The diversion program had one of those awkward public-policy acronyms: Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education — PROMISE.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Related: Policies to help students pay for college continue to shift toward favoring the rich. And many students aren’t, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy at Temple University and co-author of an ongoing six-year study at 42 public universities and colleges of practices that promote division or equality.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In the future, I want to get a master’s in architecture and focus on urban planning, just because I feel like many of the problems we see today are based off of where people live and the policies of residential segregation mainly in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, etcetera. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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JULY 24, 2022

Even though there is data that shows how pregnant teens can be supported and can be definitely on an educational trajectory of success.”. Those clinics] were a major place where young people go to get care,” said Rachel Fey, vice president of policy and strategic partnerships at Power to Decide. “So

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JUNE 18, 2018

Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In If we really care that regardless of what zip code you live in you have equal opportunity, that’s definitely not happening,” she says. It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”. percent of nondisadvantaged students.).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2015

But that’s too broad for policy, apparently. It’s that most of the definitions of ‘ready’ are far too narrow, and we don’t gather data in many key areas where students could improve their readiness if they knew they needed to do so.”. Or too narrow. In an article on Politico , David T. Not sure this makes sense, though.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In fact, he said, “It’s definitely more engaging, because you’re actively involved with what’s going on.”. beginning with the White House, whose American Workforce Policy Advisory Board has called for a prototype by this summer. Related: As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

We definitely do try to go that extra step to make those children feel just as comfortable and just as supported and let them know, ‘You can be successful even if you don’t have the same stuff at home that another child has,’” Parker says. “If Ending Social Promotion. – Amy Creeden, principal and Race to the Top lead.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“We definitely do try to go that extra step to make those children feel just as comfortable and just as supported and let them know, ‘You can be successful even if you don’t have the same stuff at home that another child has,’” Parker says. . ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

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MAY 2, 2016

And meeting college students like him, Hood said, “definitely opens them up to the possibility” of aiming higher. There are similar trends at work in the United States, the Economic Policy Institute reports — including for young college graduates, whose inflation-adjusted earnings are lower than they were in the late 1990s.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” The task force, put together by Entangled Solutions , includes “25 members from think tanks (including education policy wonk Rick Hess from the American Enterprise Institute), colleges (University of Texas), coding bootcamps (Galvanize), investment banking (Tyton Partners), and accounting firms (Ernst & Young).”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? The New York Times continues its coverage of the awfulness of tech companies’ employee policies : “Abuses Hide in the Silence of Nondisparagement Agreements.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. In the absence of teachers certified to teach science, he does no labs, nor any sort of hands-on work, which he said would “definitely be more fun.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

I’ve definitely heard from at least 10 parents who are like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on,’ ” O’Connor said. “ ‘Is this good for my child?’ ”. Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund.

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