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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

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More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. What analysts have learned so far is both encouraging and disappointing. Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report.

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Held back, but not helped

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The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

Founded in 1804 on hills beside the Hocking River in a city named Athens for its ambition to be a center of learning, O.U. Related: Analysis: Hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. is the state’s and region’s oldest public campus. Credit: Donovan Lynch.

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

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Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16.

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Higher education must stand up for Puerto Rico

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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. There are 203 accredited postsecondary institutions on the island of Puerto Rico, according to analysis of the U.S. Photo: Mari B.