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STUDENT VOICES: Transfer schools offer a second chance to graduate high school

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In an effort to reengage recent dropouts, Good Shepherd founded South Brooklyn Community High School. But by the time Mayor Michael Bloomberg came into office in 2002, South Brooklyn was showing signs of promise. South Brooklyn emphasized social-emotional learning, a high counselor-to-student ratio and paid internships.

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Alabama Policymakers Explore How to Increase Early Literacy Proficiency

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I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit Alabama yesterday to speak with the House Education Committee. In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade. In 2002, Florida’s fourth-grade readers performed far below the national average on NAEP.

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Economic Impact of Suspending 10th Graders: $35 Billion, Study Says

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The national suspension data comes from sophomores surveyed as part of the Educational Longitudinal Survey of 2002. Slashing Dropout Rate Key to Turnaround in Mass. How much it costs, directly and indirectly, when a student drops out of high school. See also: Can an Increase in Empathy Lead to a Drop in Suspensions?

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When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

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This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. Higher education has long been viewed as the key to higher earnings and financial security. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. Subscribe today! BRYANT POND, Maine — EB Hoff, 14, was running for class treasurer of the Class of 2022.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

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And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Related: Rising popularity of dual-language education could leave Latinos behind. I admire them for taking this on,” says Patricia Gándara, a bilingual education researcher and co-director of The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA.

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

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Finding an alternative presented yet another obstacle for the former hairdresser in her quest to get a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from the University of Alaska at Anchorage, which sent the day care center packing because of budget cuts. Education Department data. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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