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

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There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 billion a year in forgone tuition revenue, one study found.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Lee won a Tony Award last June for her work with NAAP.) percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6 percent of the U.S.

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

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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!” Related: Dropouts try to find their way back to school. Detention almost always has a negative impact on the education of young people. Judge Thomas H.

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

The Hechinger Report

The number of indigenous Canadians grew four times faster than the rest of the population between 2006 and 2011, the most recent period for which the figure is available, and that pace is expected to continue, according to the government agency Statistics Canada. There are bowls of fresh fruit in the waiting room, and a wide-open study area.

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

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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?

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School is very important to me because I want to keep studying,” she said. “I Puerto Rico’s student population has dropped by almost half in 15 years, from almost 550,000 in 2006 to 276,413 in 2021, a decline caused by disasters, mismanagement and migration. Deishangelxa missed two weeks of classes, which upset her.

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

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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). But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences. And recently, the U.S.

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