eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Unfortunately, this kind of productive struggle is largely absent from K-12 education, leaving students ill-prepared with the mental resilience required to learn and adapt in college and beyond. The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Yet to hear the state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education tell it, there’s still a lot of work to be done. I’ve defined it as using your skill set to encounter new and complex situations. So what was initially seen as a failure was actually longterm, pretty successful.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills. 23 Ohio state’s 4-year Dyslexia Pilot Project on grades 1-3 did not reduce the risk of reading failure in 3 rd graders ($960,000). link] National Center for Education Statistics. Current Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2003-04.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Not only do these schools serve the varied needs of their local communities, which include adult education and programming to enrich the lives of local residents, they play a critical role in providing an on-ramp to post-secondary education for students who have the talent and will to pursue a college education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills. 23 Ohio state’s 4-year Dyslexia Pilot Project on grades 1-3 did not reduce the risk of reading failure in 3 rd graders ($960,000). link] National Center for Education Statistics. Current Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2003-04.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2021

The reality is that not all college graduates are reaping the employment returns post-secondary education is believed to promise. If you’re a college student relying on features of higher education—such as college curriculum and career services—to make a transition to the workforce, you could be set up for failure.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But should it really be a diploma that points the way to opportunity, or the skills that diploma (supposedly) signifies? What if people could get those skills without going to college? But experts say that there’s room—and need—for both skills-focused and credentials-focused strategies that prepare people for jobs.

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