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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

The Hechinger Report

The once-steady flow of international students to the United States increased every year from 2005 until 2019 , when anti-immigration sentiment, tension with China and other problems began to chip away at the numbers. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts.

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

The Hechinger Report

Unlike at Olmsted, the highest-scoring elementary school in the city, students at Eve scored around the dismal city average in math and English in 2019, when fewer than a quarter of students passed state tests. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

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