Sentences with phrase «about credit recovery»

«Unfortunately, we've seen all across the country urban districts get very excited about credit recovery programs and we have very little confidence that they are maintaining academic standards while catching kids up.

Read more about credit recovery in our blog post: 8 Signs Your Credit Recovery Program Could be a Credit Mill.

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Another reason for the shift to nonsurgical procedures can be credited to the difference in recovery times: a rhinoplasty takes about a week to recover from, whereas fillers require little to no time.

December 2009 (1967 kb PDF file): The Q&A in this issue features seven questions about political influence and the financial crisis (by Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel); research summaries on «Credit Conditions and Recoveries from Financial Crises» (by Prakash Kannan) and «Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies» (by Turgut Kýþýnbay); the contents of the latest issue of IMF Staff Papers; a listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during October — December 2009; and listings of recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Position Notes

Superintendent Kriner Cash said he's concerned about unusually high gains for the Class of 2015 — particularly among students who earned their diploma after taking summer credit - recovery classes.

Last week I visited a credit recovery program to learn more about their use of blended learning.

That is what online AP, credit recovery, and the like are all about.

In their own news releases, school officials talk about how Operation Graduation, which includes a credit recovery component, boosts the district's graduation rate and quotes one former student, Victor Lopez, as saying: «It was a shocker to learn what I could get done in a day.»

Many states, including New York, have begun to regulate credit recovery programs, but few have hard - and - fast rules about how they should operate.

Data about the credit - recovery industry are too incomplete, and change of all kinds too omnipresent in K — 12 education, to posit a definite link between the spread of online courses and increased graduation rates nationally.

In December, only about half of LAUSD seniors were on track to graduate, but by June, many of those students were all caught up after taking advantage of credit recovery programs.

Meanwhile, about 80 percent of urban schools cite credit recovery as an issue of importance, according to the International Association for K — 12 Online Learning.

With so little known about the efficacy of online credit - recovery courses, teachers and other onsite staff are in the best position to gauge quality and intervene when necessary.

With the exception of isolated pockets, like the Florida Virtual School (where funding of some online courses will soon be tied to passing an external exam), the conversation about accountability for online credit recovery has not been nearly as robust and far - reaching, in either a political or a pragmatic sense.

A significantly higher percentage of students in the traditionally structured algebra credit - recovery classes earned a grade of C or higher (44 percent) than in the online classes (about 30 percent).

He has also written about the effects of unemployment insurance on job search and labor force participation; the role of structural factors in impeding recovery from the Great Recession; and the incidence of the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Ever since LA Unified vaulted from a looming graduation crisis to potentially breaking its graduation record last school year after implementing a wide - scale online credit recovery program, questions have been raised about how much students are actually learning.

But now we know that about one - third of recent DC high school graduates — 900 students — had no business receiving diplomas, and that they marched across the stage last Spring because some adults changed their grades or pushed them through the farce known as «credit recovery,» in which students can receive credit for a semester by spending a few hours over a week's time in front of a computer.

«A credit recovery program should be about enrichment and acceleration,» Santelises says.

Students in Houston take an average of 61 days to complete credit - recovery courses — about 26 days fewer than a typical semester - long course — and in extreme cases might spend only a few hours racing through the material.

Please contact your school counselor to learn more about the policies regarding credit recovery in your district.

Jason Neiffer of the Montana Digital Academy writes about new research from REL Northwest that confirms what he's long believed to be a key element for student success in online credit recovery programs.

Also via The Teacher Project, Slate has launched an eight - part series, called «The Big Shorcut,» about how online credit recovery «is turning more and more U.S. high schools into diploma mills.»

Learn more about the new study from REL Northwest, Online Credit Recovery: Enrollment and Passing Patterns in Montana Digital Academy Courses.

The classes are part of a widening phenomenon called credit recovery — a term that sounds more about erasing debt than advancing education but actually enables troubled students to get credit for classes they've previously failed or didn't complete.

Vallas recently announced that he was ending Central at Night's «alternative education and credit recovery program» which provided students with the ability to come in and use an E-Leaning computer program to access credit granting classes between the hours of about 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Francesca Berardi wrote «Take These Students, Please» about online credit recovery in Chicago.

Join other district leaders, hear their success stories, and learn more about how they optimize the promise of personalized learning to increase graduation rates, reduce credit recovery, and ensure all students are really ready for their future.

No, I think they should look at it,» Zimmer said when asked about reports that the University of California system is reviewing online credit recovery courses to see if they will be accepted for admittance into its colleges.

Bell isn't the first to raise red flags about the rigor of interventions like credit recovery.

After LA Unified skyrocketed from a projected 49 percent graduation rate last fall to a record - setting 75 percent for the 2015 - 16 school year, academic experts, California public universities, editorial boards and even the school board president are all asking hard questions about one major aspect of the turnaround — online credit recovery.

Concerns about another kind of anywhere, anytime learning — online courses — were highlighted in a recent Slate expose about the low quality of credit recovery courses offered by some online providers.38 To address such concerns, states might look to centrally managed course access initiatives, such as the Louisiana Supplemental Course Academy, which vets and approves online providers of courses that students may take for credit.39

Windsor High School, a 9th to 12th grade high school of about 1,500 students, has successfully implemented an online program to assist students» various needs, including credit recovery, after - school assistance, alternative education support, summer school and more.

The main thing holding back our world from recovery, is no one wants to take losses from bad debt, and so central banks extend a lot of credit, as if those pointy - headed intellectuals have any idea about how the economy really works.

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The Hoyes Michalos Fresh Start Recovery Program enhances the mandatory credit counselling required when you file insolvency with additional tools, support and special online resources about budgeting, credit repair, dealing with creditor calls and much more.

Contact us for advice about special circumstances that HMRC may be willing to take into account when considering whether to pursue recovery of a tax credit overpayment debt.

Defining a sustained recovery as three years of above - cost - of - capital returns following two years of below - cost returns, Credit Suisse research found that only about 30 percent of the sample population was able to engineer a recovery.

The IMM report was compiled following the recovery in risky assets last week as fears about the credit situation in Dubai eased.

While PSO estimates its 545,000 customers would see a rate increase of about $ 78 million in 2021 if cost recovery were approved, it also maintains that lower energy costs and the federal wind production tax credit would offset that increase.

While PSO estimates its 545,000 customers would see a rate increase of about $ 78 million in 2021 if cost recovery were approved, it also maintains that lower energy costs and the federal wind production tax credits would offset that increase.

For example, our firm developed a case about manipulation in the credit default swaps (CDS) markets that resulted in a recovery of $ 1.87 billion for pension funds and other investors.

About three weeks later, he was moved to the credit recovery program — where students often take online courses in a storefront building.

At Confounded Interest, Anthony Sanders points out that even as Wells Fargo (WFC) is getting gun - shy about Federal Housing Administration loans, the head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray is taking credit for the «housing recovery.»