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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. These and other challenges mean that, at a time when growing proportions of high school students have been successfully encouraged to go on to college, more than one in five full-time freshmen nationwide fail to return for a second year, according to the data.

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

The Hechinger Report

In 2006, journalist Daniel Golden exposed how President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, found his way into Harvard despite lackluster grades with the help of his dad’s $2.5 Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? million donation.

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Chronically absent: Is quality education possible in juvenile detention in Mississippi?

The Hechinger Report

To the right of the computerized door allowing access to the classrooms and living spaces for the students, a sign adorned with a cute Easter duck reads “hello!” “Really what it was about was looking at their discipline systems and what data they were using to make decisions facility-wide in response to youth behavior.”

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

The island has faced corruption and mismanagement in local government, billions of dollars in debt and mass emigration that has caused a critical loss of professionals and essentially halved the island’s student population in 15 years, from almost 550,000 in 2006 to 276,413 in 2021. Child poverty is widespread: In the 50 U.S.

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

Fewer than 2 percent of mothers under 18 complete college by age 30 , according to a 2006 report published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (now Power to Decide). Even though there is data that shows how pregnant teens can be supported and can be definitely on an educational trajectory of success.”. per 1,000 in 2020.

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