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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. staff were filming a short video to show how meal service would work in the fall (an “OHIO Eats” app to order; five pick-up points around campus). The video director cued a student actor standing on the spot he had just marked with duct tape. fell from 98th to 185th in the U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

Some students fill out a handout or watch a video online. 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. “Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” Dobrin asks.

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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. My parents made me make five paper airplanes at home so I would win this,” Sharmin, browsing videos on an iPad with classmate Mariah, said. Mariah exclaimed to Sharmin, after finding a promising video. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition. Lookit lookit lookit!

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