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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

He was a responsible kid, eager to learn,” said Rhodes. True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. I love my teachers; they made me learn,” Elliott said. And I love the people that went to Carver.

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

The Hechinger Report

Now she wants others to learn that history. 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. Test scores dropped.

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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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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

The problem has grown worse as schools and teachers are forced to deal with an increasing number of nontraditional students (minority, impoverished, foster, homeless, autistic) who come from nontraditional homes (single parent, divorce, second or third marriage) and learn in nontraditional ways (via the internet, tablets, social media).

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