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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No One day in June 2012, Hernandez told him to leave. This story also appeared in USA Today. She was halfway through a two-year associate degree program at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

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Twenty-one and in high school

The Hechinger Report

While other schools adopt different strategies to keep students in class, Bronx Arena, in the Bronx borough of New York City, is betting on close relationships and a personalized academic program to get the job done. Related: Presentations and portfolios take the place of tests for some students. “But I gravitated toward them.”

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. “It Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning. Ending Social Promotion.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. ’” Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning. "This

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. There are gifted dropouts.

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

Some of the reasons for the decrease include teens waiting longer to have sex, increased access to contraception and popular reality TV shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which depicted the struggles of young moms. But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice. ECOT refuses to pay.

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