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Christoph Knoess

@EngagedMinds

We make high school and college students more successful by providing the missing link to drop-out prevention programs

 Boston, MA
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Joined November 2009
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Student loans as a campaign issue spawns new attempts to stop the banks' gravy train on.wsj.com/If0IQH
Student Loan Bankruptcy Fears Drive Congress to Rethink Law

Student Loan Bankruptcy Fears Drive Congress to Rethink Law

Lawmakers are rethinking bankruptcy-law options for student-loan debt as graduates' burden grows by 24% in the last decade.

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This is worse than it looks. Student loans are as big as subprime loans were in 2007 on.wsj.com/GDHJS0

Student-Loan Debt Tops $1 Trillion

The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, U.S. officials said.

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Student Loan Delinquencies Are Worse Than You Think buswk.co/x7HWNv via @BW
The burst education bubble: students, like homeowners, see less value in what they got or are offered bit.ly/y6gy0G
Is online K12 ed just for a few precocious students? 25% dropouts for a cost saving of $3K/student! Spell NCLB! on.wsj.com/sbJEZi
If the College Board admits "some manipulation" of SAT scores thru fake ADHD diagnosis you have an elephant in the room nyti.ms/nNKb2B
U.S. College completion rates are much worse than official statistics suggest. bit.ly/rbh9zP
No sign that HE institutions can reign in their costs - CommonFund update bit.ly/rh8VWY
Many school districts are unprepared to implement Common-Standards and "unaware of what will hit them" bit.ly/pWvlc5
Public schools imitate Charter Schools : nyti.ms/o7QA7L

Troubled Schools Try Mimicking the Charters (Published 2011)

In a first, 20 public schools in Houston are adopting the proven techniques of charter schools to see if they can help raise achievement.

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A teacher opposed to standardized tests finds a lot of value in them, once they are "depoliticized" bit.ly/nOmYjw
Did the authors of "Academically Adrift" plagiarize? Doonesbury was on to higher ed's problems many year sago. bit.ly/neyd4l
Institutions are developmentally delayed. "Student retention" is proofpoint: focus in on institution, not students bit.ly/pw8JEH
Student Retention Efforts at 4yr institution lack "teeth", resources and determination, IU finds bit.ly/p1K7zb
Harvard profs say the U.S. does not need 4000 Harvards. 3999 institutions disagree. bit.ly/rjEj6k
Gates on Ed Philanthropy - Does he not see that grants are anti-change and cement the status quo? on.wsj.com/nfxW8i
Nobody teaches Geography - and students know little about the subject. Is anyone really surprised? on.wsj.com/nKhMtD

U.S. Students Make Scant Geography Progress

Only a third of American fourth-graders could determine distance on a map, and less than half of eighth-graders knew that Islam originated in what is now Saudi Arabia, in a national geography test...

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Student Retention, Technology, and Innovation: Interview with Engaged Minds: wp.me/phVbB-PJ
Chicago Public Schools use $20M grant to do what our solution does for $60k on.wsj.com/m9rP5P
The case for the Common Core:In STEM "educating" is more important than "encouraging" study finds: bit.ly/kg3CCl
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