Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 19, 2016

Considering that these data don’t include dropouts, it seems safe to say that no more than one in three American high-school students is capable of hitting the College Board’s benchmark. But, nonetheless, perhaps these definitions of ‘college readiness’ from SAT and ACT are too stringent? via [link]. Image credit: B , Nadège.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

“The problems tends to arise when kids go to school because the deeper they get in, the more they start to lose interest,” Robinson said, pointing to the United States’ large student dropout percentage as evidence that school—as a system—is failing students. In 2013 alone, the U.S. Sir Ken Robinson. domestic cinema box office ($11.2

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

First, it’s worth noting that talking about the middle class can be tricky because there’s no universal definition. By Pew’s measure, roughly equal shares of Americans have been moving from middle to upper income status as have been falling into the lower income tier, but using a narrower definition of middle class paints a grimmer picture.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Vermont’s experiment in experiential learning goes back a number of years, but it took off in 2013, when the legislature passed a law that lets students meet state graduation standards through work-based experiences. Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

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. After that [first win], the parents were like, ‘Wait a minute, we have an award-winning theater club?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Math scores declined one point between 2013 and 2015. We still find huge gaps in achievement between white students and many students of color, between the children of college graduates and those of high school dropouts, between students in the Northeast and those in the South, and between students learning English and those who are not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

It definitely held me back.”. To help address the problem, in 2013 CUNY designated that three courses in each of its most popular majors would count toward requirements on every campus.). “Driving two hours each day plus work – it takes a lot of time away from school,” said Ms.

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