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

The Hechinger Report

Simms was speaking in the light-filled but otherwise mostly empty classroom-sized space in a co-working building in downtown D.C. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Nobody talks about that.”. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

Elliott’s lawyer told him that he could expect to spend the next two months in jail — and out of the classroom — while the district attorney decided whether to accept his case. She knew how many arrested students never returned to her classroom. hodes began working furiously behind the scenes for the drum major’s release.

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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. By 2019, the school had a student body with some of the biggest challenges in the city. Lewis said streamlining his central office staff allowed more money to flow to classrooms and schools.

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

The Hechinger Report

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges and universities prepare them. Many of those trained to become teachers never enter the classroom. The proportion of these teachers who are fifty or older rose from one in four (24 percent) in 1996 to 42 percent in 2005. By Franklin Schargel. Breaux and Harry K.

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