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

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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 Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. SPECIAL REPORT. Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses.

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With no silver bullet, innovation abounds at this bilingual high school

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Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. “We We don’t do that here,” Vázquez said.

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Twenty-one and in high school

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This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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

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Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. There are gifted dropouts. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

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In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. “It

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. “If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.” You take a personal interest,” says Keith.

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

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Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. She was a high school junior when she learned she was pregnant, and didn’t receive the support she needed from school officials to continue. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. All are illegal, yet commonplace.

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