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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. We’re not moving the needle in the way we need to,” she said.

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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. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers. Another of his studies argues that informing teens they will have higher paying jobs if they stay in school longer is effective.

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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.

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

The Hechinger Report

McElvogue has the time to spend an hour with Almanza, as well as attend to her caseload of 230 students, because Colorado is betting that a big investment in counseling can improve educational outcomes for its low-income students. Colorado Spring’s District 11 began enrolling teachers in AVID training in 2005.

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