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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. How far we’ve come is wonderful, so having to take some steps back is definitely frustrating.”. How far we’ve come is wonderful, so having to take some steps back is definitely frustrating.”

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. After that [first win], the parents were like, ‘Wait a minute, we have an award-winning theater club?

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk

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Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In If we really care that regardless of what zip code you live in you have equal opportunity, that’s definitely not happening,” she says. It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”. percent of nondisadvantaged students.).

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Six tips for going to college and working full time, from a student struggling to do both

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My college experience has definitely not been what I expected. She assured me that the added challenge of working while in school will definitely prepare me for the future. In high school, I looked forward to joining the broadcast journalism club, attending concerts, and maybe even trying out for the softball team. Well, not quite.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

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When the charter group took over the historic Eleanor McMain High School in 2017, the school still had a colorful mural that had been added to by each graduating class since 1986. The students are definitely trying to do the best that they can. InspireNOLA painted over it, wiping out decades of student work.

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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

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I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. Sign up for our newsletters. .”