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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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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. Rory Williams stands in the library at George Washington Carver High School.

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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. True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. I love my teachers; they made me learn,” Elliott said. And I love the people that went to Carver.

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