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Seeking advantage, colleges are increasingly admitting students as sophomores

The Hechinger Report

Alana Wolf was accepted to Cornell University, which told her to go somewhere else as a freshman and come back as a sophomore under a little-known policy called conditional admission. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. She spent her freshman year at Ithaca College and will enter Cornell this fall. Weekly Update.

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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?

MindShift

Craig Brock teaches high school science in Amarillo, Texas, where his freshman biology students are currently learning about the parts of a cell. Students who are learning English as a second language make up about 10 percent of the population in U.S. and speak little or no English, Brock often has to get creative.

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

The Hechinger Report

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It includes students with specific learning disabilities (such as dyslexia and dysgraphia), hearing and vision impairments, emotional disabilities, autism and more severe cognitive delays. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. Weekly Update.

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