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OPINION: Colleges have to do a better job helping students navigate what comes next

The Hechinger Report

This might require a cultural shift in some cases, but given the soaring cost of tuition, it is necessary for institutions to think about return on investment for students and their parents, not only in intellectual terms but also monetarily. Raise awareness of realistic careers.

Economics 119
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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said. School District.

Tradition 111
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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

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Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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??Why white students are 250% more likely to graduate than Black students at public universities

The Hechinger Report

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it.

K-12 145
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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group. Mississippi Learning. In some academic fields research is going global.

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Colleges welcome first-year students by getting them thinking about jobs

The Hechinger Report

Ohio Wesleyan University offers freshmen “first-year Fridays” programs focused on careers, and career planning is also now covered in a mandatory first-year introductory seminar. We’re trying to change the culture a little bit where this becomes part of what you do,” he said. You’re trying to get used to your weirdo roommate.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.