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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

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In 2011-12, the year before its agreement with the Obama administration’s Office for Civil Rights, Oakland logged 6,134 suspensions, according to state data. In her program, educators learn how traumatic experiences affect kids’ brain development and how to identify the behaviors that stem from such trauma.

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

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When the fledgling club first traveled to Atlanta in 2011 for JTF, it was invited to perform on the festival’s main stage, in front of 6,000 people, and as iTheatrics founder Timothy Allen McDonald put it, “they got a standing ovation and brought down the house.” Bush-era No Child Left Behind policies and the 2008 recession.

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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

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million since the most recent peak, in 2011, the National Student Clearinghouse reports. This story about reducing the number of college dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. That’s $13.3

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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

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But the incoming Queens College junior has been trained by the nonprofit College Access: Research and Action (CARA) to help guide students like Tasnia through the transition to college. Started in 2011, the College Bridge program now has 45 coaches in 35 high schools serving 3,800 students, according to administrators.

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Seeking advantage, colleges are increasingly admitting students as sophomores

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Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. million fewer college students in the spring semester just ended than at the last peak in 2011, the National Student Clearinghouse reports. That’s gotten harder during an ongoing enrollment slide now entering its seventh year; there were nearly 2.9