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The Awkward Truth About ‘Free College’—It Isn’t Truly Free

Edsurge

With the movement for no-tuition community college gaining momentum in more states and earning top billing in President Biden’s education agenda , experts in college access and affordability advise caution about using that potent four-letter word: f-r-e-e. There’s no free-and-reduced lunch at college.

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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

The Hechinger Report

The district’s class of 2010 had a 73 percent graduation rate for students in special education and a 13 percent dropout rate — double the dropout rate for the student body overall. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. Covina-Valley has seen its efforts pay off.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2016 $0 (President Obama’s request: $200,000,000).

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

K., & Bruegmann, E. The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 24) Jackson, C. 25) Kraft, M. A., & Papay, J.

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Rural students often go unnoticed by colleges. Can virtual counseling put them on the map?

The Hechinger Report

The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. The ratio of school counselors to high school students in Minnesota was 681-to-1 in 2016, according to state data. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. The 19-year-old St.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

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According to the fact sheet that the White House recently released, here’s what we know: Adobe has delivered creativity and e-learning software to over 950,000 students and teachers at more than 1,450 schools and launched more than 20 district-wide Adobe & ConnectED programs. 17), he can count securing a $1.5

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WGU President Scott Pulsipher on Bringing Customer-Centric Culture to Universities

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That’s among the questions we posed to Scott Pulsipher, who took the helm as the university’s president in March 2016. We haven’t raised our tuition, it’s been the same rate in that time period. We are self-sustaining on our tuition rates. So what’s in store for WGU today? Nine years. How do you make that happen?