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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?” Some students fill out a handout or watch a video online. 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 asks.

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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. Mariah exclaimed to Sharmin, after finding a promising video.

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