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

The Hechinger Report

Even with his impressive list of accomplishments, Elliott worried that his education would be derailed. “I Related: From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration. Educators can change this,” she said. Educators can change this.”. But my school had my back.”.

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

The Hechinger Report

A rare brand-new nonprofit university, NewU has a comparatively low $16,500-a-year price that’s locked in for a student’s entire education and majors with interchangeable requirements so students don’t fall behind if they switch. Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared.

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

The Hechinger Report

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. Gertrude Ivory, McDonogh 35 Alumni Association president. “It

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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. And admissions for gifted programs tend to favor children with wealthy, educated parents, who are more likely to be white.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

The United States faces a serious educational crisis. In the first ten months of 2018, public educators quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 on staff. What subjects are losing the most educators? In addition to educational disruption, what are the costs to school systems? By Franklin Schargel.

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