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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

The Hechinger Report

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

The Hechinger Report

Suspensions and expulsions plummeted during the 2020-21 school year, as most school districts closed their buildings and put instruction online to slow the spread of Covid. The consequence was an unwelcome reminder that the pandemic isn’t the only thing that can keep her from the classroom. And three days was a lot to miss.”.

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Why Community College Completion Is Often a Long and Winding Road

MindShift

But it was the GI Bill, along with the Truman Commission calling for more Americans to have access to higher education, that changed everything: By the 1960s, a massive expansion of local colleges spread across the country to serve individual communities’ needs, both to expand who could go to college and to train skilled workers for better jobs.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

There has been a significant and steady drop nationwide in the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college in the fall after they finish high school — from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, the most recent year for which the figure is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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

The Hechinger Report

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

The Hechinger Report

But that decades-long ban will end this summer, thanks to legislation passed in 2020. It now spans 15 CSU campuses, where it offers academic counseling, opportunities to network, financial advice, tutoring, a community, help in accessing campus resources, financial aid, and more. I’ll just sleep in my car.” It was all too much.

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

Here are some ideas that seem newly relevant given the constraints of 2020 and beyond. But access to home support is arguably even more important. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. Support families to help teach children.