Until recently, however, the tools to enable differentiated instruction to meet student needs were scarce.
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Raising money and in-kind resources to support endeavors that meet student needs.
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We consider how well colleges meet student needs, how long students take to graduate, the amount of debt they incur and post-degree employment.
"In many cases the schools lack the resources and personnel to respond adequately to student needs, " explains Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University.
"It's been a challenge in reduced financial capacity to offer all the courses all the time that every student needs to complete a degree, " said SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher.
My overriding concern has been to see a student-centric system emerge that can flexibly and affordably respond to different student needs so that students can realize their fullest human potential.
They worked collaboratively by using a professional learning community protocol where they deconstructed curriculum standards, developed aligned assessments, constructed instructional units, and analyzed assessment to inform and adjust instruction based on student needs.
It would be great to have an MBA class with a strong representation of people from the arts and humanities, but the reality is that an MBA student needs to be highly numerate.
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And powering it with digital learning to unleash the power of mass customization to meet different student needs and provide all students anywhere with the opportunities to have a high quality learning experience is absolutely critical to get there.
For several years now I have been an unabashed promoter of online learning as a disruptive innovation with the potential to transform our education system from a monolithic one to a student-centric one that personalizes for different student needs.
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Our members are educators, speech pathologists, a retired school nurse, school psychologists, retired diagnosticians and a grandmother of a student with special needs.
Sure, local review site Yelp.com, was available but students found that the results were overwhelming and not relevant to their student budgets and needs.
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He praised Murphy for sacrificing his life to save his team in Afghanistan, but he said what really makes Murphy his choice was that when Murphy was in 8th grade, he defended a special needs student who was being bullied.
But state high school associations, as Michigan did to allow Dompierre to keep playing, are waking up and creating rules that clearly spell out how a school can allow a special-needs student to be part of a team without creating an unusual competitive advantage.
Given that each student has different learning needs at different times and different passions and interests, there is likely no school, no matter how great, that can single-handedly cater to all of these needs just by using its own resources contained within the four walls of its classrooms.
Education is expensive and not all school systems have the necessary resources to accommodate student populations with extremely diverse needs.
Swarthmore said it has raised its financial-aid budget 51% over the last three years and strives to meet the financial needs of every student.
In any school today it takes a heroic effort for an educator to meet the needs of every student and foster a love for learning.
Yes, massive open online courses allow anyone with an Internet connection to log on and learn, but does it meet the learning needs of every student around the world?
Good programs, however, that do customize for these different learning needs and lead to increased student engagement and time on task, should be easier to scale in a digital world as opposed to an analog one.
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Congress needs to keep interest rates on student loans from doubling, and they need to do it now.
Now, this Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling this July.
At a time when Americans owe more in tuition debt than credit card debt, this Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July.
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If a high school or college needs to add 20 percent to its student body, they assume they need 20 percent more teachers, 20 percent more classrooms, and 20 percent more money.
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The private sector, she wrote, has been more "responsive" to Dillard's needs than the government's own direct student-loan program.
To out-educate our global competitors and make college more affordable, Congress needs to stop the interest rate on these student loans from doubling.
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