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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

Fifty-five percent who started in 2015 were gone by the following year, the most recent period for which the figures are available, according to U.S. After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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Six reasons you may not graduate on time

The Hechinger Report

Since 2015, when Florida State University began to counsel incoming freshmen on the wisdom of 15 credits, those who took the advice have actually earned higher G.P.A.’s. One four-year college within the City University of New York, for example, may not accept credits toward a major from another. TRANSFERRING.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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When the kids are academically on target, for example, you don’t want them to lose that momentum, and we allow [virtual] as an option.” For example, although Clayton County uses virtual learning as a disciplinary tool, the district has no records of how many students have been put into online programs involuntarily. It just depends.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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More students are graduating but that’s not the whole story

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Deering High School graduation at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. percent of students in the class of 2015 graduated, compared with 82.3 Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images. This story was originally published by the Education Writers Association and reprinted with permission.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund.