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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

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Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. The Lumina Foundation is also among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

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million since 1995, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports. It has gone down, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , as the number of high school graduates has leveled off. The Gates Foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report , which produced this story.). million to 4.8 40% of U.S.

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

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Nearly a third are 14 or younger and another 18 percent are 15 to 24, Statistics Canada reports , meaning they’re college age, or will be soon. Nationally, about 4 percent of Canadians are indigenous, up from 3 percent in 2001. Lumina is a funder of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.) In Canada, an even lower 9.8

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

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South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. Sharon Lurye , a data reporter for the Associated Press, contributed to this report. Thorne’s situation was largely the exception.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Nearly two decades ago, the reporter Todd Oppenheimer documented the aggressive rise of emerging Silicon Valley technologies — personal computers and the Internet — in the nation’s public schools. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. The George W.

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A new test that no student would dread — one that leads to citizenship

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Students need access to quality high schools, citizenship and real pathways to gainful employment, he added. But better even than DACA is the DREAM Act — or the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, which was originally introduced in 2001 by Sen. naturalization requirements. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v.