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‘The reckoning is here’: More than a third of community college students have vanished

The Hechinger Report

Amarillo College in Texas, for example, used data to create a composite profile of the average student , which it calls Maria: first-generation, part time and Hispanic, and a mother of 1.2 What I’m hearing from students is, ‘This system is not built for us,’ ” said Cooper. “It Credit: AP Photo/Ross D.

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Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it

The Hechinger Report

Led by Micah Ross, a biology teacher, the academy was piloting an app-based pandemic simulation, part of Operation Outbreak , a platform of lessons on infectious diseases and the public health response to their spread. Remember,” Ross said to her class at one point, “all these numbers represent people.”. We were really amazed by that.”

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