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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. What analysts have learned so far is both encouraging and disappointing. Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report.

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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. Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning.

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

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Related: Tipping point: Can summit put personalized learning over the top? But the University of Maine at Presque Isle (or UMPI) is one of the first public universities in the nation to use proficiency-based learning. Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six.

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

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The once-steady flow of international students to the United States increased every year from 2005 until 2019 , when anti-immigration sentiment, tension with China and other problems began to chip away at the numbers. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.

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Held back, but not helped

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Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. 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. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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Founded in 1804 on hills beside the Hocking River in a city named Athens for its ambition to be a center of learning, O.U. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. — are fueling conflicts with administrators that, amplified by the coronavirus pandemic, have ignited protests by faculty, staff and some students and alumni.

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