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

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

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.

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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. Taravella High School in Florida, hasn’t wanted to speak up in her large algebra I class that meets on Microsoft Teams. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning. Zyonne Reid, a 15-year-old at J.P.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. More than 100 faculty members, adjuncts and others joined the group’s first Zoom meeting. In remarks he had planned to deliver in person to the Board of Trustees on March 19 (emailed instead), Vedder said O.U. 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.

The Hechinger Report

Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. At an Orleans Parish School Board school board meeting last December, Lewis was seated on the dais touting a major victory for his administration. Now she wants others to learn that history.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. He proposed a Venn diagram: Giftedness is where creativity, above-average ability and commitment to completing a task meet. The advantage of talent development is that kids who need a challenge don’t have to meet a potentially disqualifying entrance standard.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

A report by Richard Ingersoll has observed that new teachers are particularly vulnerable because they are more likely than more experienced teachers to be assigned to low-performing schools in urban areas, where the dropout rates reach or exceed 50 percent. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem.

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