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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. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Photo: Michael Farrell for The Hechinger Report. campus as sophomores.

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

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Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In In fiscal year 2015, the federal government gave states about $12 billion, or 16 percent of the excess costs, according to a report by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute.

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