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Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

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Photo: Judge Evans for The Hechinger Report. In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system. My grades were perfect,” said Hargrove.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

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Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. There are gifted dropouts. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report.

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. But Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has put school discipline back on the table by telling reporters she is “looking closely” at whether to change the 2014 federal guidance, which some conservative critics have blamed for sowing “ classroom chaos.” BURIEN, Wash. — percent. “The

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched.