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

Edsurge

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. 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.

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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

Ask a Tech Teacher

Measuring Up is a suite of tools that supplements any classroom curriculum by offering standards-based instruction, practice, assessment, and reporting customized to many state or national standards–with the singular goal of assisting students in meeting English Language Arts, Mathematics, and/or Science standards. Data on Measuring Up.

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When Employment is the Goal, Should 'Student Success' Include Dropouts?

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At the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Community & Technical College, Associate Dean Kim Griffis says dropouts aren’t considered a failure, if the student has landed a job in the technical field they were training for. Kim Griffis. But some colleges have a different perspective on the matter. Graduation rates are not the whole story.”.

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

The Hechinger Report

Talent Development Secondary, a nonprofit that grew out of a Johns Hopkins University study on dropout rates, is the data-driven arm of the Diplomas Now model; it identifies kids at risk of dropping out and establishes a schoolwide process of intervention and support services to keep them on track to graduate. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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. The AFT represents 85,000 adjuncts who have unionized. “If The arts building at McGill University in Montreal.

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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. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Stopping dropouts . This story about college dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

They can also donate equipment and serve on advisory boards to ensure that schools’ technical education classes meet industry standards. Budget autonomy allows schools to allocate funding as they see fit to meet the needs of their particular students. Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5

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