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To Get To College, It Helps Black Students To Have A Black Teacher Early On

MindShift

A recent study — part of a series of working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research — shows that having just one black teacher not only lowers black students’ high school dropout rates and increases their desire to go to college, but also can make them more likely to enroll in college.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

They still are, but as the academy enters its sixth full year, its student outcomes are drawing praise from a variety of sources, even while administrators note that steep challenges remain. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Dawn Hall has served as principal at Lincoln Park School in Brownsville, Texas since 2017. She motivates me a lot.” They’ve moved on.”).

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

Deishangelxa started kindergarten at Ana Hernandez Usera elementary school in 2017, the year Hurricane Maria struck the island. Since 2017, natural disasters have pounded the island — decimating homes, crippling the power grid and gutting infrastructure. 2017 and 2022 children are not the same.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Student Loan Report : “Halfway Through 2017, Here Are the Best & Worst Student Loan Servicers.” The Flatiron School has released its latest “outcomes report.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? trillion in 2017. The Business of Student Loans. ”).

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards.” ” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. Via Chalkbeat : “New York City’s largest school charter network, Success Academy , has won the 2017 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools.”