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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

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Then Tuminez, a former Microsoft executive, proposed a third core value: “exceptional accountability.” Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”.

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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

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Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report. By one count, there are now more than 500,000 of them , ranging from dental assistant certification programs at for-profit colleges to Microsoft certifications in cloud computing. As with current Pell grants and student loans, taxpayers don’t want to fund a new pool of dropouts.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Credit: Sarah Garland for The Hechinger Report. Your stories. math-teaching?experts.?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

DeVos reported a new investment of between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Michigan-based Neurocore , according to a financial disclosure form that was certified by government ethics officials on Wednesday.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department’s recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. State and Local) Education Politics. Via Reuters : “U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via US News & World Report : “Bathroom Wars.” Via The Hechinger Report : “ DeVos praises virtual schools , but new research points to problems.” Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Microsoft Moves to Enable Streamlined Purchasing of Bundled Products for Education.” Research, “Research,” and Reports. ” Immigration and Education. .”