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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

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The program is aimed at helping students feel connected to each other and their community in a place where — as in so many rural areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic and the 2008 recession — connectedness and a shared sense of purpose have been in short supply. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

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For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

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Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. But Tameka says no one from the district has offered her guidance.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. math-teaching?experts.?

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

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Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Students study over lunch at St. High cost of dropping out.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

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But first, the kids in teacher Meghan Groves’ first-grade classroom were taking a moment to share their favorite part of the day. “My Known as the birthplace of country music, Bristol has seen rates of poverty and drug use rise significantly since the 2008 recession. BRISTOL, Va. — Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

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Douglass was the worst-performing school in the state in 2008. Dale, who was one of Sci’s first teachers in 2008, admitted that embracing football came with trade-offs. One recent study found that brain trauma is also widespread among high school football players. From 3:30 to 6 p.m.

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