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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. So it’s easy for me to show them how to do it, show them my way,” said Obimma. Allison Socol, The Education Trust.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it.

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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

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I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. And, of course, you know, have your science and math, and learn how to write. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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After the 2016 presidential election in which Donald Trump was declared winner, that feeling has gotten more intense for educators, he said. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

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

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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.