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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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

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population and more than 13 percent of New York City’s population, per the 2010 census. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. percent of the U.S.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

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I would have been a dropout.”. One thing that encouraged Radford was that the Say Yes scholarships were going to be available regardless of income, providing a path to induce middle-class families to return to a school system in which, in 2010-11, nearly eight out of 10 students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

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Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

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Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. In 2010, Central Falls made national news again when the entire staff of the city’s only high school was fired as part of “turnaround” effort to raise its perennially low test scores.

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OPINION: Four ways to support refugee students during the pandemic

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Since 2010, nearly 600,000 refugees have settled in the United States, and there is a big chance that many educators will encounter these students, who have already experienced trauma, violence and deep loss.

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