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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

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HOUSTON — Colorful college pennants line the walls in a small room at a public library branch in the city's Near Northside. Northside High was previously named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, and it was once labeled a “ dropout factory ” in a Johns Hopkins University study of institutions with low graduation rates.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road. Her aim then was a law degree.

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Thriving SAT Scores: Meet Shaan Patel, Founder of Prep Expert and Shark Tank Winner

EdNews Daily

The maximum SAT score 2015 is vastly greater than today’s SAT. I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. After hours of studying in the library, preparing and identifying patterns for the test, I was able to improve my score from 1760 to a perfect 2400.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Indeed, in 2015, when The Charter School of San Diego received a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, a prestigious federal award recognizing businesses, health care systems, educational institutions and nonprofits for performance excellence, the school was cited for high levels of satisfaction among parents and students.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

Edsurge

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. My learners needed choices that my physical book collection could not provide, and I need a way to bolster my library and give students more choices.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” What do you make of it? Would you like to follow along?

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 We have to make space for them to access the content.”. Citing figures from a New American Economy report, Walsh says Massachusetts businesses posted nearly 15,000 positions seeking bilingual candidates in 2015. and abroad.

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