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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

Then Tuminez, a former Microsoft executive, proposed a third core value: “exceptional accountability.” Department of Education. It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change.

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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

By one count, there are now more than 500,000 of them , ranging from dental assistant certification programs at for-profit colleges to Microsoft certifications in cloud computing. They’re like the Wild West of education. As with current Pell grants and student loans, taxpayers don’t want to fund a new pool of dropouts.

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D2L launches newest Brightspace Insights

eSchool News

Educators can access a variety of data to help predict at-risk learners and help them in real-time. Next page: How the new Brightspace Insights uses data to help educators act in real time. D2L (formerly “Desire2Learn”) recently unveiled the newest version of its Brightspace Insights analytics suite.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Read the stories.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Here are a few schools that are getting high marks for adapting to this changing educational landscape. Reading Eggs ?

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November 14 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

ANNOUNCEMENTS The 2011 Global Education Conference has begun! In it''s second year, this amazing five-day, 24-hour-a-day event helps educators and students connect with each other and with global education programs all over the world. Come sign up--it''s free! The session schedule is up in all 36 time zones. The Classroom 2.0

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

(National) Education Politics. ” “Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest” – historian Sherman Dorn on “ Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.” billion from the Department of Education. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts.