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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. While a total of 119,000 people succeeded in getting two types of manufacturing certificates through 2018, we don’t know how many failed.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

The Hechinger Report

Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. In 2018, nearly half the student body had to attend summer school to make up credits. “I In 2018, the board hired Harold Clay as executive director of the school and Jennifer Chapman as principal.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

“I would say there are maybe five organizations like ours across the country,” said Valeria Do Vale, lead coordinator for the Student Immigration Movement, which was started in Boston in 2005 by immigrant students attending high school with hopes of attending college.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

The Wall Street Journal reported at the end of 2018, using U.S. In the first ten months of 2018, public educators quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 on staff. The proportion of these teachers who are fifty or older rose from one in four (24 percent) in 1996 to 42 percent in 2005.

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

The Hechinger Report

Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. Instead, Buffalo got a $1 million grant in 2018 from the Kellogg Foundation to help teachers incorporate bits of gifted education into all pre-K to fourth grade classrooms, an effort that is still being rolled out. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. Colorado Spring’s District 11 began enrolling teachers in AVID training in 2005.

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