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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. The Brookings study counts 100 regional public universities serving 1.2 From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. There is big tension over purpose and identity.”. chapter.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 percent of the U.S.

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

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Offering accelerated combined bachelor’s and master’s degrees also helps keep undergraduates from leaving for graduate study; those who stay provide universities with essential revenue. 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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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

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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. Many, like Dzindzichashvili, interrupt their studies because of the cost.

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

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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. Many others in his place give up: A multiyear study of 1,000 adolescents in Chicago found that arrested teens were 22 percent more likely to quit school.

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

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An Israeli study found long-term benefits from high school remedial instruction taught by the students’ teachers after school. Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. Students work on a math problem in a remedial class in New York.

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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. One recent study found that brain trauma is also widespread among high school football players.

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