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Helping education go further: Solutions Serving the K-20 to Workforce Continuum

October 8, 2019

Explore the pathways that your high school alumni take through higher education with StudentTracker® for High Schools. Reliable information on your graduates’ college transition rates is always at your fingertips. You can also compare your rates to those of similar schools across the country, including those serving low income and minority students, using the High School Benchmarks Report, published annually by the National Student Clearinghouse® Research CenterTM. Starting fall 2019, you’ll also be able to easily compare your school to national averages reported by our Research Center directly within StudentTracker.

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Michigan Virtual

Michigan Virtual™, formerly known as Michigan Virtual University® & Michigan Virtual School®, has been working hard to provide a path to the future for students and educators since 1998. As a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation focused on education, we believe that brilliance resides in all of us, ready to change the world with next big idea. We’re dedicated to helping each student shine their brightest by enhancing their opportunities to learn and working to strengthen the teachers that will show them the way. Here we strive to place each student’s potential within reach. By discovering new ways to grow, we’re taking K-12 education to the next level and working to leverage face-to-face, blended and online learning innovations that facilitate the advancement of education.

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whitePaper | August 8, 2022

Aiming to help all students succeed beyond high school, a growing number of K-12 school systems are expanding opportunities for career exploration and experience as well as extending these activities into the younger grades.

AI in Classrooms: Impacts of Merlyn Mind on Teacher Technostress and Time Savings

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This report serves as an addendum to a previous report submitted to Digital Promise and Merlyn Mind in June 2021. This extension of previous work was commissioned by Digital Promise on behalf of Merlyn Mind to continue examining the impact of Symphony Classroom implementation in response to product developments

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DECODING ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION

whitePaper | March 31, 2023

California’s “alternative schools” are publicly funded schools designed to provide a different educational setting from traditional public schools. Students placed in alternative schools include students who have faced discipline such as expulsion or suspensions of ten or more days in a school year; students impacted by incarceration and probation contact; students with histories of missing school; and students in need of credit recovery. Alternative schools may also enroll high concentrations of students with disabilities, students with experiences in the foster system, and students who have experienced homelessness

Public Housing & Public Schools

whitePaper | August 1, 2022

Learning loss is real. COVID-19 has stranded many more children on the wrong side of even larger achievement and opportunity gaps than ever before—gaps that have grown into canyons and chasms. And large numbers of children residing in, and served by, the nation’s public housing are among the stranded

Helping education go further: Solutions Serving the K-20 to Workforce Continuum