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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. They’re like the Wild West of education. A student practices how to use a knee mill, a metalworking machine, during a manufacturing class.

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

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Even with his impressive list of accomplishments, Elliott worried that his education would be derailed. “I Related: From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration. Educators can change this,” she said. Educators can change this.”. But my school had my back.”.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Higher Education. But to the parents, it’s worth it.

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

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A rare brand-new nonprofit university, NewU has a comparatively low $16,500-a-year price that’s locked in for a student’s entire education and majors with interchangeable requirements so students don’t fall behind if they switch. Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared.

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

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Dobrin has embraced the school’s new proficiency-based education model and now offers his students many choices inside his classes. This change is part of a larger move at the university towards “proficiency-based education” (sometimes called competency- or mastery-based education). Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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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. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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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. 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. Read the stories.

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