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

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I met Gaweda while reporting on transfer high schools for the Miseducation podcast. 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. We would be broken into.

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

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Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Wages climbed for college grads in the 1970s and 80s, says Mishel, but since 2002 wage growth for people with a bachelors has been stagnant. The post When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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

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Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. David Murphy, who has served as the district’s superintendent since 2002 (and has worked in the district since 1984), explained that the approach was born of necessity. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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. For more information about the researchers’ methodology, take a look at the whole report here. Do you agree with the report’s conclusions? Slashing Dropout Rate Key to Turnaround in Mass.

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

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Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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Photo: Meredith Kolodner/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. Sign up for our newsletter. The results have been promising.

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

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Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. 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. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.