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

The Hechinger Report

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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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. That means algebra I is also the class that decides whether students get jobs involving science, technology, engineering or math. Related: Confused by your kid’s math homework? Here’s how it all adds up.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

A report by Richard Ingersoll has observed that new teachers are particularly vulnerable because they are more likely than more experienced teachers to be assigned to low-performing schools in urban areas, where the dropout rates reach or exceed 50 percent. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem.

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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. Technology is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Terman set the stage by writing in the 1910s that giftedness was very high intelligence, which he defined as the top 1 percent of scorers on his IQ exam, researcher Jennifer L. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

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Higher education must stand up for Puerto Rico

The Hechinger Report

Consequently, mainland colleges must open their doors as they did for New Orleans co-eds who could not return to their campuses in the immediate aftermath of Katrina in 2005; there is a blueprint. But students’ coursework isn’t the only concern. The intellectual capital of Puerto Rico hangs in the balance. The entire U.S.

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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. 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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