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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

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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. I felt like I needed mirrors in the classroom.”.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

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Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. Related: Will thousands of prison inmates lose access to college?

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

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Simms was speaking in the light-filled but otherwise mostly empty classroom-sized space in a co-working building in downtown D.C. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Nobody talks about that.”. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

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The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Teachers didn’t get much professional development to learn how best to use the iPods in the classroom and there wasn’t a lot of clarity around how the technology could help the district achieve concrete learning goals. “At Subscribe today!

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Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

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High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. The school had fights in the hallways and tedium in the classrooms. Freshly painted two-floor shingle houses sit next to beat-up trailers that lack regular access to electricity.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life? The George W.