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PROOF POINTS: When women studied with women, they persisted, study finds

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That’s what a University of Zurich graduate student found in an experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups. Their dropout rates were very similar whether they were in a study group’s minority or the majority. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

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That’s higher than the district’s fall 2018 numbers and a slight drop from 2019. In Denver, on the other hand, districtwide data shows that suspensions were down by 55 percent in fall 2021 compared with fall 2019, though 1,000 of Denver’s 92,000 students were suspended in the first four months of the school year.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

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The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. January 16, 2019. But some STEM majors are tougher than others. It wasn’t always this way.

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

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High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. In Avoyelles, these trends have become deeply entrenched. Busing, stemming from a 50-year desegregation order that was just lifted last year, helped to integrate some Avoyelles schools.