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

The Hechinger Report

Some students fill out a handout or watch a video online. 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

The Hechinger Report

Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. My parents made me make five paper airplanes at home so I would win this,” Sharmin, browsing videos on an iPad with classmate Mariah, said. Mariah exclaimed to Sharmin, after finding a promising video. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition. Lookit lookit lookit!

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