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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Prior to that, Ray was Dean for the School of Education at Southern New Hampshire University which Fast Company Magazine named the 12th most innovative organization in the world in its World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.

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STUDENT VOICES: Transfer schools offer a second chance to graduate high school

The Hechinger Report

Good Shepherd was working in Red Hook in the 1990s, during a time when Life magazine called it the “crack capital of America.”. In an effort to reengage recent dropouts, Good Shepherd founded South Brooklyn Community High School.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. Dr. Moran has appeared on the cover of Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine as a “National Mover and Shaker” for her advocacy of a curricular digital integration model, which will be featured in an upcoming profile by Edutopia.

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Tuesday - Ron Wolk on "Wasting Minds"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Currently Chairman at Big Picture Learning , and the founder and former editor of Education Week , Teacher Magazine , and Quality Counts , "Wolk draws on three decades spent in the school reform trenches to question the common assumptions about the U.S. education system.

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A convenient untruth

Learning with 'e's

Style mismatches between teaching and learning, physical learning environments not conducive to information intake and unmet physical needs during the learning process can lead to frustration, stress, learning problems, underachievement, low self esteem, discipline problems among younger students, and dropoutism in high schools." Moseley, D.,

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

Edsurge

The editor of Slate magazine at the time, Jacob Weisberg, called it a “nasty idea.” They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. He wrote : “Thiel’s program is premised on the idea that America suffers from a deficiency of entrepreneurship.

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Why education is really a relationship business

eSchool News

From the time I was 19, I worked in newspapers, then magazines, radio and television. I landed an editor’s gig for an education magazine and for the first time in my professional life, I found a home. Writing, speaking, creating magazines and television shows and radio broadcasts. I love meeting people in the education biz.