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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

You were more or less able to learn how to interact with other children and the world around you on your own terms, in your own way. Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). Once you entered kindergarten, however, things changed.

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As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back

The Hechinger Report

Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4

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Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

The Hechinger Report

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system. But they never would tell me how to go to school when I was going through something.”.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness. There are gifted dropouts. This story also appeared in NBC News. Low-income families, they are working on Saturday.”.

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

From 2004 to 2014, Los Angeles (which in 2013 became the first school district to ban suspensions for “defiance ”) shaved its suspension rate from 9 percent to 1 percent , but black students were still suspended at higher rates than other racial and ethnic groups. Highline isn’t the only district facing backlash over new discipline policies.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids. The truth of it is,” Zimring continued, “we know how to educate these kids. But he described science at school as “boring.”