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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. Traditional universities will find themselves obsolete, unless they adapt.

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

Edsurge

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. As Canizales discovered on his own, the costs and benefits of various post-secondary pathways are not always obvious. So Project GRAD went mobile.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

I would have been a dropout.”. One of the most common statements I heard when I was meeting with all the stakeholders,” Dedecker said, “was ‘This will never work here.’ Are our students completing post-secondary education? I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her. And I do that with [Stubbe].

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

The survey asked families if all students at home had devices of their own; whether those devices were loans from a school or family-owned; and whether the family was connected to the internet and, if so, how: via broadband, mobile phone or otherwise. We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” he said.

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British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

The Hechinger Report

And meeting college students like him, Hood said, “definitely opens them up to the possibility” of aiming higher. Girls score 16 percent better than boys in A-Levels, the standardized exams generally required to get into British universities, the British Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission reports.