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President of Achieving the Dream On How Colleges Wrestle With Their Data

Edsurge

That’s what’s happening to colleges as they start to analyze their own institutional data and look harder at student achievement on their campuses. That’s one of the insights found by the nonprofit group Achieving the Dream , which works with community colleges around the country to try to create a more data-driven culture.

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Reinforcing the standardized model of low-level learning and schooling

Dangerously Irrelevant

For instance, we’re discussing laws and policies (that emphasize standardized data), screening instruments (based on standardized data), ‘evidence-based interventions’ (based on standardized data), progress monitoring (based on standardized data), and data-based decision-making (based on standardized data). . To which I say, ‘Meh.’

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How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models

Edsurge

He worked with Achievement First to build two Greenfield school models, as a consultant led research for the Charter School Growth Fund and the Clayton Christensen Institute, and consulted on the Chicago Breakthrough Schools Fellowship. During the course of their work with Achievement First, they formed Transcend to meet this need.

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4 ways to build faculty buy-in for student success initiatives

EAB

Instead, a collaborative and inclusive approach is more likely to achieve successful implementation and adoption of new initiatives. In practice: Progress reports By thinking creatively and collaboratively, a public university in the Midwest was able to achieve record response rates from progress reports. Ready to find out more?

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Reduce long-term cost growth to rightsize your university

EAB

The much-discussed demographic cliff represents a 6.5% The good news is that recent disruptions and innovations have made many strategies more valuable and/or reduced change management challenges. decline in the U.S. 15-19-year-old population from its peak in 2021 to its trough in 2032.

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How to Recruit Adult Career Switchers

EAB

EAB’s Beth Donaldson and David Kuehl discuss how to reach prospective graduate school students who are looking to switch careers and enroll in business programs that may be very different from their undergraduate field of study. And I can see myself also achieving those goals. To move into a new sector.

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