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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

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Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, 2018). billion annually. UC Santa Barbara. 2007 ([link]. Stevens, T.

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Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

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. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

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As Harlem Children’s Zone moves to export its model nationwide, Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods offer cautionary tales

The Hechinger Report

To foster these kinds of outcomes in other cities, Owusu-Kesse enticed Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone’s founder and former CEO, out of semi-retirement to lead the initiative, which Owusu-Kesse sees as “a national hub” for local groups. 18, 2004, in New York. Are they prepared to work with existing district schools?”.

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

The Hechinger Report

Black, Latino and Indigenous groups are often left out. There are gifted dropouts. The National Association for Gifted Children defines its target group as kids whose “ability is significantly above the norm for their age.” In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

In surveying broader groups of occupations, Burning Glass found a credentials gap of 26 percent for management jobs, 21 percent for computer and math jobs and 13 percent for sales jobs. workforce that does not have a four-year college degree.” and $11 per hour. Lawrence Lanahan for The Hechinger Report.

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

The Hechinger Report

From 2004 to 2014, Los Angeles (which in 2013 became the first school district to ban suspensions for “defiance ”) shaved its suspension rate from 9 percent to 1 percent , but black students were still suspended at higher rates than other racial and ethnic groups. Susan is a hero to me,” he said. But many teachers remain skeptical.

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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. Now known as the Alpine Program, it was where 13-year-old Jonathan King, a child diagnosed with ADHD and depression, hanged himself in 2004 after being placed in a windowless “seclusion room.”