{"id":37061,"date":"2015-06-01T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=37061"},"modified":"2015-06-01T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:03:23","slug":"wright-state-education-model-expands-to-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/06\/01\/wright-state-education-model-expands-to-high-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State education model expands to high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment\">An education model aimed at increasing the number of students in engineering professions is expanding from Wright State University to area schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment\">The university&#8217;s College of Engineering\u00a0and Computer Science has been developing a curriculum over the past decade, which it has termed the Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics. The concept, championed by Dean Nathan Klingbeil, has pushed a format that helps students through critical early math classes that are often a bottleneck for graduates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment\">The idea has doubled the graduation rate of the school&#8217;s engineers, from 24 percent to 56 percent. Wright State has about 500 students in engineering degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment\">Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/blog\/morning_call\/2015\/06\/wright-state-education-model-expands-to-high.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Business Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt An education model aimed at increasing the number of students in engineering professions is expanding from Wright State University to area schools. The university&#8217;s College of Engineering\u00a0and Computer Science has been developing a curriculum over the past decade, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/06\/01\/wright-state-education-model-expands-to-high-schools\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":33263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,743,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-engineering-computer-science","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37063,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37061\/revisions\/37063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}