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

The Hechinger Report

Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. 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

“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

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. Nearly 60 percent of students in gifted education are white, according to the most recent federal data , compared to 50 percent of public school enrollment overall.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

Just 7 percent of America’s public school teachers were Black during the 2017-18 school year, while Black students make up 15 percent of the student population, according to the most recently available data from the National Center for Education Statistics. I was proud to be a part of a community,” he said.

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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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Higher education must stand up for Puerto Rico

The Hechinger Report

Consequently, mainland colleges must open their doors as they did for New Orleans co-eds who could not return to their campuses in the immediate aftermath of Katrina in 2005; there is a blueprint. But students’ coursework isn’t the only concern. The intellectual capital of Puerto Rico hangs in the balance.