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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

Ask a Tech Teacher

Measuring Up is a suite of tools that supplements any classroom curriculum by offering standards-based instruction, practice, assessment, and reporting customized to many state or national standards–with the singular goal of assisting students in meeting English Language Arts, Mathematics, and/or Science standards. Data on Measuring Up.

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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

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HOUSTON — Colorful college pennants line the walls in a small room at a public library branch in the city's Near Northside. Students come here from miles around to meet—first-come, first-served—with advisers for help navigating all things higher education, from admissions tests to majors to meningitis shots.

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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

The Hechinger Report

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Most Altus classes meet the University of California’s “A-G” course requirements for admission, Altus officials say. They email and telephone parents and call families in to meet with the instructors, a social worker, case manager or other support staff if a student is struggling. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. A meeting with an Aon recruiter changed her course. to undergraduate students?pursuing

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

The Hechinger Report

We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. A group of colleges has decided to stop holding students captive and allow them to get their lives back on track. Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. After years of decline, the rates have begun to rise.

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