Traditional higher education has historically done a lackluster job of offering vocationally-oriented education programs and meeting the needs of non-traditional students.
Initiatives like the ED-X partnership between Harvard and MIT promise to give non-traditional students elements of a world-class education online, and for free.
"The proportion of non-traditional students in universities has rocketed over the last few years, and I celebrate that achievement, " said its chief executive, Diana Warwick.
Everyone else, if they so chose, could go to one of the many California Community Colleges, which were open not only to high school graduates but also to qualifying non-traditional students.
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This held true for both traditional college students, teenagers and young adults whose parents often benefited from the credits, and for non-traditional students, typically older students who could take the tax credits themselves.
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While many of the charter schools and charter organizations are making huge improvements in traditional outcomes for students, most are not new or different.
American education needs a balance of diverse traditional options while encouraging entrepreneurship and risk-taking for students unattracted to traditional models.
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And in my hometown of Chicago, there are students learning traditional Mexican art forms.
He arrived in America in 1971, opening his first studio in Los Angeles and teaching traditional Hatha yoga to students including Shirley MacLaine.
Dartmouth did not report a breakdown of where its students work, but the majority of Tuck students pursue traditional business careers like consulting and finance.
But the focus of our online World Campus, where courses have completion rates of 90% or better, will remain on helping traditional campus-based students to complete degree programs.
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States with reading and maths gains that were significantly higher for charter-school students than in traditional schools included Arkansas, Colorado (Denver), Illinois (Chicago), Louisiana and Missouri.
Coursera and other champions of large-scale online courses until recently have been talking mostly about having students come into traditional exam halls if they wanted to take tests for credit.
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Manx minister of education, Eddie Teare MHK said: This project fits in well with my own view that we should encourage creative activity and also emphasize opportunities available in other areas, rather than the traditional avenues available to local students.
She says a high quality university education should be accessible for students for whom the traditional full-time daytime route is not an option.
Levine predicted that there would continue to be traditional campuses in the future where students live and attend classes, but that they would compete with virtual universities that only exist online.
Recruiters in the global job market today get a lot of resumes from people who have double or triple majored in various business subjects and that conform to the traditional path and expectations for business students.
We also partner with North Carolina State University where I teach courses on science writing for the media to students split equally between traditional writers and science PhD trainees who want to make their work come alive in words and images.
In this era of post-traditional higher education faculty, libraries and students can be virtually anywhere in the world.
In the traditional model of education, we assign students grades to indicate what percentage of the material they have mastered.
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One is Carpe Diem, which began as a traditional, state charter school serving 280 students in grades 6 to 12 in Yuma, Ariz.
In the short term, the BYOD model may be sufficient because most of the digital content students are using closely mirrors traditional print textbooks.
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Students also spend time in traditional classrooms where they work with a teacher who re-teaches concepts as needed and enhances and applies the material introduced online.
Reformers have forgotten that the original idea behind charter schools was to empower groups of teachers to experiment with new ways of teaching and reaching out to students, often from within traditional public schools.
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This is a promising example of outreach work, but what about the impact of MOOCs on traditional colleges and universities and their on-campus students?
But students require different skills than on a traditional programme.
In laying down the guidelines, the department is trying to balance free-speech rights and the educational benefits of online learning with the dangers it sees in teachers and students getting too comfortable in less-traditional settings.
According to John Porter, assistant superintendent, Administrative Services and Public Relations for the Alexandria City Public Schools, their graduation rate is reflective of a large number of foreign-born students who may take longer than the traditional four years to graduate.
As artists and students have been gradually priced out of traditional inner-city areas such as Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, this southwesterly district has become a haven for the annual hordes of newcomers seeking refuge in its relatively cheap rents, transformed ateliers and bars and burgeoning creative community.
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