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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

Among teachers who transferred between schools, lack of planning time (65 percent), too heavy a workload (60 percent), problematic student behavior (53 percent), and a lack of influence over school policy (52 percent) were cited by the U.S. The percentage of teacher in their thirties dropped from 37 percent in 1990 to 22 percent in 2005.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

David Hawkins, executive director for education content and policy for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. As of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, graduation rates among participating schools had risen from 65 percent to nearly 80 percent , while dropout rates declined.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I Thorne, a former University of South Carolina defensive lineman, ended his first year as an educator with no complaints. I was proud to be a part of a community,” he said.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent).

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

The state enforced strict policies to retain children who failed high stakes tests, ballooning the ranks of those who were held back. 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.

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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. Related: Universities that are recruiting older students often leave them floundering.

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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. Steele, who studies high school policies and practices related to algebra I, is advising teachers to slow down this fall — a strategy that, confusingly, the U.S. math-teaching?experts.? Credit: Sarah Garland for The Hechinger Report.

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