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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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So he has no idea if they’re learning. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. Your stories. Ishmael Brown Jr.,

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

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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. Nobody talks about that.”. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

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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. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. As a sophomore, she worked six hours a night at a burger joint in a shopping mall. Weekly Update.

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

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He was a responsible kid, eager to learn,” said Rhodes. 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. She knew his potential.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

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Now she wants others to learn that history. Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. Lewis said streamlining his central office staff allowed more money to flow to classrooms and schools.

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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. You bring in the new, and you had to trade out some of the old,” she said. From 3:30 to 6 p.m.

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

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Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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