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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

Dzindzichashvili enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005 after graduating from high school, commuting across the city from her family’s duplex in East Boston for class before heading home again to work at a law firm. Related: Colleges provide misleading information about their costs.

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

The Hechinger Report

In both, her presence in court calmed fears and provided context to judges hungry for more information. To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college. Initially, she mostly provided language interpretation.

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PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. Another of his studies argues that informing teens they will have higher paying jobs if they stay in school longer is effective. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers.

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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. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

Education 145
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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. Universities did this informally after Katrina, through an array of community service projects and spring break trips.