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

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But in a proficiency-based system, students must show that they’ve mastered “competencies” — specific skills or knowledge — before they move on to the next level, and eventually receive a diploma. Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

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The once-steady flow of international students to the United States increased every year from 2005 until 2019 , when anti-immigration sentiment, tension with China and other problems began to chip away at the numbers. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.

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Held back, but not helped

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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. Certainly, Louisiana schools still have limited resources and tools to help struggling students, White said.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

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I see a lot of black kids like me lost to the system,” Elliott said. I see a lot of black kids like me lost to the system. Supreme Court on down, have begun reconsidering how the justice system treats young people. She talks about attending law school and becoming a lawyer who can help students navigate the immigration system.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

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Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. His network boasts several of New Orleans’ rare A and B ratings on the state grading system. “There was an expectation that we would succeed – always,” Ivory said.

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

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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. In 2013, the school narrowly avoided an F rating on Louisiana’s school accountability system. “In

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