The Hechinger Report
MARCH 22, 2020
“I would say there are maybe five organizations like ours across the country,” said Valeria Do Vale, lead coordinator for the Student Immigration Movement, which was started in Boston in 2005 by immigrant students attending high school with hopes of attending college. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 13, 2021
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. There’s another way, say math teaching experts.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 3, 2018
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. Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 8, 2017
His mother, Tyra Hales, signed him up for a youth team at a park near their home in Gentilly, a predominantly black neighborhood that was inundated by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters for weeks in 2005. The school jettisoned its “no excuses” policy, provided more training to teachers and tried to attract more locals to the faculty.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
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. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.
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