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

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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. Professional training programs have exploded over the last dozen years. Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. Teachers don’t get enough training to begin with and certainly haven’t been trained to teach math remotely, said Mark Goldstein, vice president of curriculum and instruction at the nonprofit Center for Mathematics and Teaching.

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

The Hechinger Report

Other universities see three-year degrees as a way to compete in the struggle for declining numbers of students, including those being lured away by faster-paced training programs such as coding schools or questioning the need to go to college at all. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. As an example, he mentioned esports, and a new curriculum that could be used as “a vehicle to enable training.”. In remarks he had planned to deliver in person to the Board of Trustees on March 19 (emailed instead), Vedder said O.U. fell from 98th to 185th in the U.S.

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

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Building on her work at Carver, she recently formed a nonprofit called Alas, which means “wings” in Spanish, to help train educators at every New Orleans school to support students who face legal challenges. Social worker Lisa Maria Rhodes in George Washington Carver High School’s main front stairwell.

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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. The school jettisoned its “no excuses” policy, provided more training to teachers and tried to attract more locals to the faculty.

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PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

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Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. Lavy modeled it after an on-the-job teacher training program. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers.

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