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In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates

The Hechinger Report

Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six — all at a time when the region desperately needs more college grads. Dobrin lectures on blood clots and vessels, mapping out diagrams on a whiteboard. Dobrin asks.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005.

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

The Hechinger Report

Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. By that, the students knew, their teacher meant one of the psychologist Dr. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

Ocon, who had been at the school since 2005, became convinced that the source of the dismal performance numbers was not the kids but a hidebound curriculum that was simply not working to their benefit. Calendar-driven midterm and final exams are jettisoned in favor of ongoing assessments. We call them ‘benchmarks’.”

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