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In Elementary School, Many Teachers Have a Shaky Grasp of Math. Can Preparation Programs Change That?

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But surprisingly, the most notable failure was in graduate programs, which performed far worse than their undergraduate counterparts, even though they are preparing prospective teachers for the same job. The report gave Fs to 84 percent of the graduate programs preparing elementary school teachers for math.

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Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed?

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Another finding by the same Columbia team, measuring the Virginia Community College System, uncovered similar results—that students were more likely to fail or withdraw from online courses than from face-to-face classes and were less likely in other ways to do as well as face-to-face learners.

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