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OPINION: What if corporate America did more to raise the high school graduation rate?

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Even though this crucial completion figure hit 84 percent in 2016, up from 71 percent in 2001, the nation is off pace when it comes to reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020. But when nine out of 10 schools nationwide use credit recovery, there are examples of ushering kids through a system without a rigorous education.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

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SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear. Since 2001, we have partnered with schools and districts to accelerate literacy growth for all students with our flagship PRO platform for differentiated literacy instruction.

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Proficiency and NAEP scores: Let’s stop talking about trivial distinctions and focus on ending inequality instead

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Just as an example, in its long-term trend assessment, NAEP reports on results for 9-, 13-, and 17-year olds, but in the national assessment reported this week it focuses on grades 4, 8, and 12. “Eight subjects … three grades … one report card” promises the NAEP website. Related: When fourth-grade problems include gunfire.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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The previous federal law, the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, required states to develop and give standardized tests in third to eighth grade. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. It’s a philosophical shift of pretty much all aspects of your organization.”.

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

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For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes. After the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor struggling students, but several frauds and fiascos led to concerns about lax oversight. There were disappointments in other years, too.

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

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Minnesota, for example, wants 70 percent of its residents to have certificates or degrees by 2025. Only 40 percent of older students with children manage to get degrees or certificates within six years, a lower proportion than their traditional-age classmates, and dropout rates are higher among older students with kids. 40% of U.S.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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In fact, there have been bigger attempts to build central libraries of them in the past, such as a 2001 project by the the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching called the Knowledge Media Laboratory (which is now defunct). The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent. Teaching portfolios aren’t a new idea.