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Tuesday October 30, 2012

Response to Sarah Mosle's "Teaching Lessons"

by Clare Bertrand
In Sara Mosle’s Oct. 27 piece in The New York Times’ Opinionator column, Teaching Lessons, she writes: “Teachers can’t go it alone. They need sustained training and support using empirically tested methods in concert and collaboration with one another. This is how schools succeed.” This simple declaration is not only powerful, but true. There are...

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Friday October 19, 2012

Dual Enrollment Students More Likely to Succeed in College

by Ben Struhl
Joel Vargas and I recently finished a research study where we found that Texas high school students who take college courses through dual enrollment are a lot more likely to attend college and receive a college degree. There are a few other studies of dual enrollment from other states that support what we found, but our study is different and...

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Wednesday October 17, 2012

Edtech and the Transition to Postsecondary

by Clare Bertrand
Why are discussions of postsecondary transitions so absent in edtech conversations? This is the question I found myself wondering about at the Wireless EdTech Conference last week in Washington, DC. I took part in some fantastic conversations about assessments, infrastructure, and how educational technologies can support learning outcomes. But I...

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