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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. As with current Pell grants and student loans, taxpayers don’t want to fund a new pool of dropouts. It could be twice as many.

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

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In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. Asians were also the group least likely to be cast in roles that did not call for a specific race. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6 percent of the U.S. Yung Wing School’s panda mascot adorns the lobby of the school.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said. When they break out into group work, no one talks except him.

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

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He then mills around the room, meeting with students individually or in small groups. 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. Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?”

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

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Dzindzichashvili enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005 after graduating from high school, commuting across the city from her family’s duplex in East Boston for class before heading home again to work at a law firm. More than 1,000 students have taken the state up on the offer since it began three years ago.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. At the University of Cincinnati, student leaders, representing groups advocating causes from fossil fuel divestment to anti-human trafficking, recently identified a common foe: university spending practices. “We fell from 98th to 185th in the U.S. News Best National University rankings.

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

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Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. This superintendent and board have relinquished their responsibility to the charter management groups, who operate schools like businesses,” Ivory said. Now she wants others to learn that history.

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