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  • One city's answer to the high two-year college dropout rate

    April 09, 2015 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Yonkers, New York

    Yonkers Partners in Education offers free SAT test prep and college guidance counselors in Yonker's high schools. The program aims to increase college enrollment rates for low-income students who lack the same access to expensive tutors and courses as their afluent peers.

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  • Education lessons from Maine, New Hampshire

    April 07, 2015 |

    Vermont Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    As Vermont struggles to create legislation regulating school district management and financial efficiency, the state looks to models in Maine and New Hampshire for guidance. In Maine, school districts have tried to save money and resources through consolidation; in New Hampshire, officials have reworked the way schooling is financed altogether.

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  • iPads < Teachers

    April 06, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Well-trained teachers cannot be replaced solely by technology, as has been increasingly apparent at Carpe Diem schools, where students learn largely via computers enabled with educational software.

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  • Community-college students learn math by using it

    April 06, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Many students who are funneled into remedial courses don't end up completing their community college degrees. For the past decade, I-BEST has offered students a hands-on approach, connecting academic work with direct job skills training to make classroom content less theoretical. Called "the most-copied idea to come out of Washington’s community-college system," I-BEST has increased students' likelihood of learning a credential by nine times.

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  • Dutch nursing home offers rent-free housing to students

    April 05, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Deventer

    A Dutch nursing home brings together students and seniors with an innovative housing plan: offering rent-free apartments to students. In exchange, the students must partake in nursing home events for at least 30 hours per month as an effort to help bridge the generational gap and give senior residents a larger community.

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  • The Rise of ‘Studyblrs'

    April 02, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Students in today's technical world are now using blogging and other forms of social media, known as studyblrs, in order to help each other improve achievement through online homework help, communication, and encouragement.

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  • How Pinterest Is Revolutionizing Your Child's Classroom

    March 31, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Colorful volumes of books have aided teaching for centuries; however, the scope of engagement in the internet age demands newer methods for pedagogy. Pinterest, a social media-constructed visual bulletin board, has become a venue in which teachers share their pinned visual media, lesson plans, and charts with students and other teachers. The success of Teaching Pinterest expands pedagogy, reduces teacher alienation, enables collaboration with other teachers, and directs readers to other sites that offer teachers’ curriculum ideas for a cost.

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  • The Perfect Classroom, According to Science

    March 31, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The physical classroom environment can have profound effects on a student’s academic performance, sense of belonging, and self-esteem. What would the Platonic ideal classroom look like, illustrated? It might include more greenery, fewer visual distractions on classroom walls, and some tweaks to light sources.

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  • How this private college maintains a $1 billion endowment without charging tuition

    March 30, 2015 |

    Business Insider |

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    Response Location: United States, Berea, Kentucky

    Berea College, a liberal arts college located in Kentucky, has a massive $1 billion endowment. But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with whopping endowments, Berea has accumulated its endowment all while offering four-year degrees to students tuition-free, keeping costs down by employing students and fundraising.

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  • Bringing a Charter School Approach to college

    March 28, 2015 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    There are many reasons why a student might leave university without graduating. Match Beyond helps students who dropped out of college finally receive their degree through personal counselors who make sure that the students are fulfilling all the necessary things in order to graduate.

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