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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. As with current Pell grants and student loans, taxpayers don’t want to fund a new pool of dropouts. It could be twice as many.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

In a presentation a few years ago, a top education-department administrator, Chief of Literacy Kerry Laster, wrote, “We retain students despite overwhelming research and practical evidence that retention fails to lead to improved student outcomes.” Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005.

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

The Hechinger Report

But after about half-an-hour, the lecture stops and Dobrin presents his students with a menu of options. “Is 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. Dobrin asks.

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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. With only two days a week to present new material, algebra I teacher Eliza Pierce has had to skim — the class isn’t diving into the really hard problems, she said. The other three days they’re on their own to do homework.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

Ocon, who had been at the school since 2005, became convinced that the source of the dismal performance numbers was not the kids but a hidebound curriculum that was simply not working to their benefit. Ocon describes lesson plans that were based around presenting content and then giving quizzes and tests at predetermined intervals.

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