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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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My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. My dad, my mom would always kind of call me like the king of trivia because I’d always have just like random science facts,” he said. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports.

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The opioid crisis took their parents, now foster kids left behind are being failed again

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This story about the opioid crisis and foster care was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. .

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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

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Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need. Indeed, students are mostly unimpressed with how much movement they get in their day.

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

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“My dad said, ‘I’ll just take two jobs.’ I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” Or how the counselor didn’t know low-income students like her were eligible for a waiver of the fee. And how she begged the university, unsuccessfully, for more financial aid.

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When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

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For the small, unincorporated community of 6,000 just north of Ann Arbor, the 12-year old building is a crown jewel — one that’s all the more precious given how close it came to slipping away. The district relied on seven portable classrooms, and some teachers were assigned to teach in modified storage closets.

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Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs?

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That was in January 2016. Independence Academy is one of 33 so-called recovery schools in the United States, public high schools that serve students whose lives and educations have been derailed by drug abuse. While national surveys indicate that adolescent drug use has fallen across the board in recent years, some 1.3

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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

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With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action. With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action.