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Events + News - Library 2.0 Spring Summit - Free-Range Kids - Testing "Chaos" and Opting Out - Student Debt - Will College Survive?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts. These interactive sessions on future technology trends will present key issues faced by information professionals and educators.

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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

The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. EAB compiles its customer data to report on national trends in college completion. It wasn’t always this way.

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Temple University is spending millions to get more students through college, but is there a cheaper way?

The Hechinger Report

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. The university then provides those students with increased support.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. It found a small, statistically significant bump in math (3 percentage points) and a “similar trend” (but “not significant”) in reading. It’s why a fire in the library tarnishes a school’s reputation in the minds of parents, sometimes for years.

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Students, feeling nickel-and-dimed, force new scrutiny of college fees

The Hechinger Report

Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Dropout rates have also fallen. Think tuition is high?

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - National Library Week. National Library Week is this week, and the theme is "Lives change @ your library®." How does your library manage digital collections?

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. The results for Hispanic women — 100 percent of Lincoln Park’s population is Latina — are worse.

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