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Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ High School Dropout.

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He is one of 30 international TED-Ed Innovative Educators of 2016. In 2016 he was named Teacher of the Year for Rowan Salisbury Schools, and in 2017 he was named North Carolina’s Southwest Teacher of the Year. While asking him to leave school, the principal told Anthony that he’d be better off getting his GED and learning a trade.

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ReUp Education Raises $6 Million Series A to Help College Dropouts Return

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More than 400 re-enrolled students have graduated from institutions including Old Dominion University in Virginia and schools within the Texas A&M University System. About 26 percent of students who started college in 2016 failed to make it to their second year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

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With school budgets already limited by a conservative-led state legislature that critics say chronically underfunds public education , the district turned to Diplomas Now, an education nonprofit whose aim is to increase graduation rates using a data-driven system of early intervention. The results have been impressive.

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

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In Tennessee, the education system made headlines a few years back when the state announced the “ Tennessee Promise ”—an initiative granting thousands of high school students the opportunity to attend two years of free community college. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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OPINION: The Supreme Court ruling on race in college admissions ignores bigger inequities that must be addressed

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In Philadelphia, 49 percent of students who graduated from public high schools matriculated to a college or university, a number that does not account for the 19 percent pushout or dropout rate of students who did not graduate from high school. Driving that overall inequity is the inequity in funding.

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How one college system pushes many graduates into the middle class and beyond

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You’ve probably heard the stories about the millions of dropouts who are saddled with debt. Almost 11,000 students were enrolled in CUNY’s SEEK program as of the fall of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available. Percentage of the student body from bottom 20% that earn in the top 20% as adults.

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STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside

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school system is a “mess.” That’s the problem with our education system now, that mistakes are the worst things you can make. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. Do they feel that way? . Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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