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JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

In September, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund released a report recommending school districts institute a moratorium on all suspensions and modify school discipline policies to be trauma-informed and supportive. In 2017 it banned suspensions for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. Some districts appear to be doing just that.

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JUNE 18, 2017

In a traditional system, he almost certainly would have been retained, putting him on a path towards potential dropout. As a TeachPlus Policy Fellow, I engage others in this issue on my own time. Related : PODCAST: What happens when students get into college—but can’t afford to attend? Sign up for our newsletter.

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MARCH 16, 2020

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Data that Drive Solutions.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. “If Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Lehigh University has started hiring faculty for a new college of health policy , part of a plan to add 1,800 students. Will there be more?

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APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. That’s typical, said Smith of the Center on Education and the Workforce.

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MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” Until 2017, New Orleans high schools had no internal options to help students who fell so far behind a conventional diploma seemed impossible. “My My grades were perfect.

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MARCH 11, 2018

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. Bush-era No Child Left Behind policies and the 2008 recession. We’ve got to do it again!’ ” said McDonald.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Just this week, I saw several petitions like, ‘We have to change the administration’s policies.’ ”. Two students died by suicide, in fall 2017 and summer 2018, said Beth DeJongh, an associate professor of pharmacy practice who knew both and had one in class at the time. And the interest is coming from presidents and provosts.”.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Claudette Bautista, a 2017 Muñiz graduate who now attends Lesley University, was born in the Dominican Republic but spent her K-8 years in Boston, learning in English. percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Less than one-half of 1 percent of children from the poorest fifth of American families attend elite colleges and universities, according to one 2017 study. I asked Jerome Lucido, executive director at the University of Southern California’s Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice, how admissions can be fixed.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. Ferneidi Pina Baez, a 2017 graduate, counts that as her favorite project of the year. Music saved my life.”.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

A June 2020 study by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows enrollments at regional public universities across six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have fallen by over 10 percent since 2011. The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. Try our Financial Fitness Tracker.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In We’ll give you math and English credits for writing a business plan; biology credit for studying antibiotics and breeding; and social studies credit for researching how Vermont’s policies affect goat farmers.

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MAY 22, 2017

What follows is a look at how Mississippi is doing compared with the rest of the country, based on data from the 2017 “Building a Grad Nation” report. For more data points and policy recommendations, check out the full report here. There is an 11.4 percentage point difference in ACGR for white and Hispanic students in Mississippi.

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MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. He received an associate degree, hoping to eventually get a bachelor’s and work as a financial adviser. Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries.

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APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools.

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APRIL 22, 2020

A black bachelor’s degree recipient is more likely to default than a white college dropout. How higher-ed policy exacerbates this crisis. State higher-education policy isn’t helping matters. Federal higher-ed policy isn’t helping either. And that was before the coronavirus crisis. But don’t take our word for it.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Essex Tech’s state-approved admissions policy considers prior academic performance, teacher recommendations and an in-person interview among other factors. The admissions team says it looks for a diverse student body on all fronts, including socioeconomic, gender, race and academic ability.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

That’s down 11 percentage points since 2017. “He In Arizona, 46 percent of high school graduates in 2020 went to college the following fall, a drop from more than 55 percent in 2017. They stick to a policy of advertising prices few consumers pay but that discourage many from applying. Last year, it was less than 53 percent.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

As Cure Violence’s senior director of science and policy Charles Ransford explains it, you have to address problems including PTSD, drug use and trauma before a student can sit in a classroom. Convincing these young dropouts to give school another try can be challenging, Caldeira said. And that’s just Massachusetts.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Thousands of local black teachers were fired and replaced with a much whiter teaching force, while strict “no excuses” discipline policies resulted in thousands of students being suspended and expelled. The school jettisoned its “no excuses” policy, provided more training to teachers and tried to attract more locals to the faculty.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. Stanley Celestine Jr.,

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Other districts embrace virtualization as a disciplinary measure and have started to develop official policies around using this punishment. Some school districts consider virtual learning an alternative to discipline — not a form of discipline itself.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

“The Promise Neighborhoods’ goal was to replicate the work of Harlem Children’s Zone — a federal grant program to do in neighborhoods across the country what Geoffrey Canada did for Harlem,” said Megan Gallagher, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, a social and economic policy think tank.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In the future, I want to get a master’s in architecture and focus on urban planning, just because I feel like many of the problems we see today are based off of where people live and the policies of residential segregation mainly in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, etcetera. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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MAY 26, 2020

In a 2017 study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers found that low- income black male elementary school students who were paired with a black teacher in the third, fourth, or fifth grades were 39 percent less likely to drop out of high school.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2017, Ralston had been the one to pick up James “JC” Cavitt, who came running into her office as an undergraduate on the verge of quitting his first job on campus. There are 48,000 collateral consequences [of incarceration] that exist to trip you up, but all you need is one community to help pick you up.”

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

In June 2017, weeks after finishing his first year of college at Columbia University, Shariq Jumani was struck by a car while crossing Riverside Drive near campus. Policy experts believe the JOBS bill will move forward only as part of a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which provides federal aid for postsecondary education.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

In order to ensure students’ college and career readiness, the K-12 and higher education systems must be strengthened, according to a policy paper from New America , a non-partisan think tank. Next page: 10 education policy concerns for lawmakers).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Among teachers who transferred between schools, lack of planning time (65 percent), too heavy a workload (60 percent), problematic student behavior (53 percent), and a lack of influence over school policy (52 percent) were cited by the U.S. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem.

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MAY 30, 2018

David Hawkins, executive director for education content and policy for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. As of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, graduation rates among participating schools had risen from 65 percent to nearly 80 percent , while dropout rates declined.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. That last rejection in spring 2017 was the last straw for Thorne. Why didn’t you tell us?

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