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With Limited Options, a Struggling Campus Prepares Students for Life After High School

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P-TECH partnered with IBM back in 2011 to design a six-year high school where students receive associate's degrees in STEM majors and sometimes job offers from IBM by the time they graduate. However, problems with completion do not primarily stem from dropouts, which were recorded at 2 percent in 2016.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. West Philadelphia High School’s current building opened in 2011.

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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

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

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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Held back, but not helped

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A 2011-12 survey found an average of 9 percent of students nationwide had repeated at least one grade; in Louisiana, the average was 23 percent. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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