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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

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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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

Dobrin has embraced the school’s new proficiency-based education model and now offers his students many choices inside his classes. But after about half-an-hour, the lecture stops and Dobrin presents his students with a menu of options. “Is Higher Education. Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. Dobrin asks.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Yet, inside the building, a new vision for the education of low-income students of color has taken root. Ocon describes lesson plans that were based around presenting content and then giving quizzes and tests at predetermined intervals.

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