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Reaching High School Students through Content Marketing
If you have spent any time working in or on your school’s marketing plan, you know that it can feel like a constantly moving target. The platforms, tools, and best practices that are ideal for creating a successful outreach campaign can change frequently (and sometimes unexpectedly). And that is …
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Every year, more than a million students don't complete the FAFSA — the main federal student-loan application. One big reason? The form is so complicated that it discourages some people from even trying.
Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would scrap the much-maligned Free Application for Federal Student Aid. They'd replace …
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A massive open online course instructor was removed from his own course last week — or was he? As confusion brews among students in the half-finished, suspended MOOC, some observers are asking if the instructor orchestrated a social experiment without permission — or a farce.
Paul-Olivier Dehaye’s three-week course, “Teaching Goes Massive: New …
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Kevin Carey of The New York Times writes there is no reason to believe that American colleges are, on average, the best in the world. A number of people who responded, including several in letters to The Times, raised issues worth addressing more broadly.
Several of the questions concerned whether the American graduates …
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When students at Purdue University are reading their homework assignments, sometimes the assignments are reading them too. A software program called tracks various pieces of information, including the number of points earned in the course and the amount of time the student has spent logged in to the college's software platform.
Course Signals …
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The Sloan Consortium is shedding the name of its original benefactor to become the Online Learning Consortium, the last step in a 22-year-long journey to break off on its own. The name change has been in the works for months, teased and tested during conferences, in focus groups and through market research, …
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Colleges and universities continue to give record-high discounts on tuition, which is good news for students, but bad news for the institutions, a new report shows. The so-called discount rate—the amount of revenue that goes back out the door in the form of financial aid to fill seats—was projected to have grown …
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Remedial education is getting plenty of attention from state lawmakers. Yet there is little consistency in how states track students’ college preparedness and subsequent progress through remedial coursework.
That’s the central finding of a new report from the Education Commission of the States. The education policy think tank also released a companion report …
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Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs take more than twice as long to fill as other openings, according to a new Brookings Institution study that provides the most detailed evidence yet of a skills gap that's slowing payroll growth. Even more surprising, a high school graduate with a STEM background is …
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By several measures, America is becoming more educated, but young people may have less opportunity now than in 1990. The national high school graduation rate is the highest it's been in decades, and the percentage of adults with some form of college degree has also been on the rise. Nationwide, about 26 …