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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

The Hechinger Report

Such closures have a disastrous impact on education in STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and math. Even before the pandemic, STEM achievement gaps in K-12 schools were significant. Unsurprisingly, such foundational STEM disparities extend far beyond secondary school education.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

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After Governor Bill Haslam announced the scholarship program amongst a flurry of news , students immediately began applying to receive funds to put towards tuition at one of the state’s 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology, or other eligible institutions offering an associate’s degree program. ( Sam Brooks.

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Kids Don’t Fail, Schools Fail Kids: Sir Ken Robinson on the 'Learning Revolution'

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“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 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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With Limited Options, a Struggling Campus Prepares Students for Life After High School

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Then, after the school received an innovation grant in February, they reached out to feeder schools to identify 8th-grade students who performed well in logic, critical thinking and showed interest in information technology. However, problems with completion do not primarily stem from dropouts, which were recorded at 2 percent in 2016.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

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Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. The DMZ is a tech incubator and a shared workspace that facilitates the development of technology startups for both students and members of the tech community.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. Math courses are “the most significant barrier to degree completion in both STEM and non-STEM fields,” the authors concluded. Jeffrey Coots, a Kentucky algebra teacher.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, after years of declines, national college graduation rates started ticking back up again and have continued rising for the past three years. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. But that progress may come at a cost.

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