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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

Business leaders can offer students co-op opportunities — paid, part-time work while they are still enrolled in high school — and a bridge to jobs following graduation. They can also donate equipment and serve on advisory boards to ensure that schools’ technical education classes meet industry standards.

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The journey to student-centered learning

Neo LMS

From Kindergarten to high school and after that in college, our students are mostly treated as if they’re traveling with a railroad train of the past, bringing all of them in the same direction at the same time. And we keep wondering about the high rates of dropout students. Kids don’t learn the same. Conclusion.

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

eSchool News

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% “Keeping in line with our prioritization on preparing students for further education or entering the workforce, Ancora High School helps to lay the groundwork for those who need it most,” said Bill Nance, CEO of Ancora.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

In hybrid courses, IDLA teachers and students meet on a weekly basis in real-time (synchronously), in addition to the asynchronous nature of online content and assessments, which students can tackle on their own time, at their own piece. But don’t take solely our word for it—hear how the students responded.

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The Professional Development Problem

EdNews Daily

If we overlay this data with a recent Gallup Poll of one million students, half of which reported feeling disengaged at school, we connect the dots to the loss of autonomy and input as a consequence of our push for accountability.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. References and further readings Binder, T., Sandmann, A., Sures, B.

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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. School is open year-round, allowing students to continue their studies throughout the summer. Keeping students engaged who by definition have had trouble sticking with school is a challenge.

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