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Alabama Policymakers Explore How to Increase Early Literacy Proficiency

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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? In 2002, Florida’s fourth-grade readers performed far below the national average on NAEP.

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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 English was his stronger language for reading and writing when he started at Muñiz, but now, if he doesn’t know how to say something in English, he can say it in Spanish without fear of reprisal. “It It feels much better like that,” Oniel says.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

Almost anyone can enroll at a community college in California, but each college has its own process to decide how to place students. Diana Solares was aiming for a bachelor’s degree when she graduated from high school in San Diego in 2002. Photo: Brandon Quester/inewsource.

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

The Hechinger Report

But we don’t know how to go about it right now and as an industry we are picking and choosing what feels right as opposed to using evidence-based practices.”. Inside the schools, the share of students qualifying for free lunch, a federal measure of poverty, jumped from 39 percent in 2002-03 to 81 percent in 2018-19.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

On any given day, he helps students with homework, drives them to the bus station to catch a ride home for the weekend or shows them how to get a refill for a prescription. “A Edward Lara started as a campus coach in July of 2017 and works with about 22 students. A lot of our students, they’ve never done that for themselves,” Lara said.

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