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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. Then Covid decimated them.

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

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That week, he also had intense conversations with teachers, as he tried to figure out how to make up for the 60 days he’d missed. To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college.

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

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His mother, Tyra Hales, signed him up for a youth team at a park near their home in Gentilly, a predominantly black neighborhood that was inundated by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters for weeks in 2005. The first thing McCloud did when he arrived at Renaissance in January was to figure out how to get weekly progress reports on his players.

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

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In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. This story also appeared in NBC News. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

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“Since my parents didn’t get much education, it’s hard to talk to them about my schoolwork and applying to college, or how to plan my time and get everything done,” says Mariano Almanza, 18, pictured speaking with his Coronado High School guidance counselor, Colleen McElvogue. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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

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He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I Many Black boys don’t have a teacher who looks like them at all during their education — there doesn’t seem like there’s real access to the profession, then, for them.

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