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Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ High School Dropout.

Edsurge

Anthony’s classroom is as much an invitation to his students to take ownership of their learning as it is a rebellion against the education system that failed him when he was a student. In his book, “ High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year ,” Anthony’s complicated relationship to education comes through as the fuel behind his work.

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

With school budgets already limited by a conservative-led state legislature that critics say chronically underfunds public education , the district turned to Diplomas Now, an education nonprofit whose aim is to increase graduation rates using a data-driven system of early intervention. The results have been impressive.

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. These basic tenets can guide our stance: 1.

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One university has a new college specifically to re-enroll adults who had dropped out

The Hechinger Report

Related: PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back. John Reyes, who manages coaches at ReUp, said that, along with helping students navigate financial aid and transfer credit systems, he also encourages them to “dig a little deeper under the surface” and evaluate their goals for college.

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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

The Hechinger Report

If you’re cobbling together jobs at different universities to make ends meet, you don’t have the time to do the work you want to with your students,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten. We have this system where the people who actually do the work are getting the least benefits and the least security.

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The journey to student-centered learning

Neo LMS

In case it’s not clear by now that the above lines are not at all about a train journey, I must say I’m actually talking about our educational system. And we keep wondering about the high rates of dropout students. Meeting the specific learning needs of students has a name among educators: student-centered learning.

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Why we should all think about the gamification of education

Neo LMS

The educational system as we know it needs a revamp. The educational system needs to be restructured. There are many reasons behind high dropout rates , but many seem to stream from the same sources. There are many reasons behind high dropout rates , but many seem to stream from the same sources. Nor teachers.