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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

The Hechinger Report

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve. It’s kind of funny.”

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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

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A mother of two, Amy Nalesnik felt her heart drop when she learned the campus day care center she had hoped would watch her kids all day was being evicted. An existing federal program that helps with child care, called Child Care Access Means Parents in School, has had its budget cut from $25 million in 2001 to $15 million last year.

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

The Hechinger Report

Nationally, about 4 percent of Canadians are indigenous, up from 3 percent in 2001. It was really our own reinvigorated call to action,” said Patti McDougall, vice provost for teaching and learning at the University of Saskatchewan, or U of S. Patti McDougall, vice provost for teaching and learning, University of Saskatchewan.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning.

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A new test that no student would dread — one that leads to citizenship

The Hechinger Report

Students need access to quality high schools, citizenship and real pathways to gainful employment, he added. What they learn in math, English and science they apply in real life. Taking English and learning about Shakespeare is not just about command over the language but also imparting American and British culture.