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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

In spite of mankind’s amazing potential, it is an ironic truism of modernity that our US educational system is losing massive numbers of young learners each year to boredom, stress, and disengagement (1, 2). We know that labeling and stratifying children are a disservice to both the individual and the educational system. (6).

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Four Reasons Why Students Don’t Receive the Degrees They’ve Earned

Edsurge

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” Really what we’re looking at is systemic problems. This has worked better than traditional “opt-in” systems, which “can yield far fewer ultimate completions,” Linden says. Some of those qualify for more than one.

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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. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out. My grades were perfect.

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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

Breaking the cycle of systemic poverty and low academic achievement takes a long-term commitment, he said, and even after 20 years of focusing just on Harlem, the ultimate successes are only now coming into view. 18, 2004, in New York. said Harlem Children’s Zone CEO Kwame Owusu-Kesse.

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

The Hechinger Report

There are gifted dropouts. White and middle-class students attracted to the magnets stayed in the school system, and mixed with Black and low-income students in the same schools. Smart parents were using the system to their advantage,” Will Keresztes, the acting superintendent during the investigation, said.

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We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

The Hechinger Report

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. See chart below.). Maybe we need to rethink our advice.

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

The Hechinger Report

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.