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

The Hechinger Report

Simms was speaking in the light-filled but otherwise mostly empty classroom-sized space in a co-working building in downtown D.C. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. The biggest challenge is how to fit the requirements of a bachelor’s degree designed to take four years into three.

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Held back, but not helped

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As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. But they have much better tools than they did in 2005 when the retention policy was put into place,” he said.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. I think this is a lost school year for most kids.”. I’m very worried. Ishmael Brown Jr.,

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

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Elliott’s lawyer told him that he could expect to spend the next two months in jail — and out of the classroom — while the district attorney decided whether to accept his case. She knew how many arrested students never returned to her classroom. hodes began working furiously behind the scenes for the drum major’s release.

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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. The first thing McCloud did when he arrived at Renaissance in January was to figure out how to get weekly progress reports on his players.

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

The Hechinger Report

In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness. And even though the district made it easier to apply for gifted classes, Olmsted gifted classrooms still don’t look like the rest of the district.

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Who will Teach the Children?

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Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges and universities prepare them. Many of those trained to become teachers never enter the classroom. The proportion of these teachers who are fifty or older rose from one in four (24 percent) in 1996 to 42 percent in 2005. By Franklin Schargel. Breaux and Harry K.

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