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UTAH SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS PROVIDE MODEL FOR EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

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The most recent – and most notable – comes from what some may consider an unlikely source: a series of partnerships between Utah schools and ASU Prep Digital, an accredited online K-12 school based in neighboring Arizona. Utah Education Landscape. For more information, visit asuprepdigital.org.

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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. million , compared with $1.2

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Don’t Call Them Test Companies: How the College Board and ACT Have Shifted Focus

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It took a long time to get [past] the feeling of being ashamed of my background—ashamed that my parents didn’t finish high school. Just this month the group acquired Mawi Learning , a social-emotional learning company that offers online and blended courses in SEL. “I didn’t know how to say it.

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