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Seeking advantage, colleges are increasingly admitting students as sophomores

The Hechinger Report

Alana Wolf at her summer internship at a theater company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Most require that the students meet minimum academic standards and earn a predetermined number of credits. That’s gotten harder during an ongoing enrollment slide now entering its seventh year; there were nearly 2.9

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. The system, she said, “failed me.”.

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