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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. How can we help all students achieve this?

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

The Hechinger Report

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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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. It’s not clear how these changes will affect students throughout the state’s 114 community colleges.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

Higher Education. Education officials also cite the counseling and mental-health services the school receives from a handful of local organizations. “It We don’t want it to be the education du jour,” he said. A third girl, dressed in a pink fleece, pointed at Groves while exclaiming: “My sunshine share is — you!”. Weekly Update.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

T his story about foster care and higher education 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. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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