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When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk

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Miles Hooper, the 26-year-old manager of Vermont’s largest goat farm, remembers what it’s like to be 16 and not want to be in a classroom. But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report.

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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

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Limiting which Native students get financial assistance is especially significant, given the rising cost of post-secondary degrees. Without tribal status and consequent financial aid, Perrantes owed $27,000 in student loans after finishing her associate degree in clean energy technologies at Washington’s Shoreline Community College in 2014.

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Held back, but not helped

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As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. But the proportion of overage students in Louisiana schools outside New Orleans is still startlingly high, averaging around one-third of students in 2014. As a sophomore, she worked six hours a night at a burger joint in a shopping mall.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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Jordan Mickens, who spent his first year as a teacher at Castlemont High School in 2014, said he vividly remembers the technology divide his students faced compared with those in the wealthy areas surrounding Oakland. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To for only a few weeks.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

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In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom.

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The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

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When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines. They settled on four skills to focus on in the classroom and for students to practice in internships. There’s a pretty distinct difference between a classroom setting and work setting,” she said.

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With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

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Two years ago, Nathaniel Albert walked into a first-grade classroom at Andrew H. It’s a rarity to see male teachers in the classroom at all on this floor,” James said. We’re not trying to force anyone into teaching,” said Kristyna Jones, who co-founded BE2T in 2014. Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report.

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