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

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. Related: Tipping point: Can summit put personalized learning over the top? 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.

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

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Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. BUFFALO, N.Y. — It’s not just Buffalo.

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