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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Retentions in Louisiana peaked a few years after Katrina and have fallen steadily since; nearly 9 percent of the state’s students were held back in 2007, only 5 percent were retained in 2011. percent national average.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

That there aren’t enough seats in schools like Essex Tech for every student who wants one is a credit to the model, and to career and technical education’s evolution, said David Driscoll, who served as Massachusetts’ education commissioner from 1999 to 2007. Historical documents and literary fiction make up the curriculum.

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After all the fuss about getting in, how do poor students survive on elite campuses?

The Hechinger Report

They are struggles that Jack, an assistant professor at Harvard, knows well from his own experience as an undergraduate scholarship student at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he prodded his classmates to understand being dependent on food stamps, before he graduated in 2007. Most public schools in the U.S.