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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road. Her aim then was a law degree.

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Thriving SAT Scores: Meet Shaan Patel, Founder of Prep Expert and Shark Tank Winner

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I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. After hours of studying in the library, preparing and identifying patterns for the test, I was able to improve my score from 1760 to a perfect 2400. Therefore, they moved to Las Vegas and purchased a budget motel.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them. This is our blue-ocean strategy,” said Haefner. The Rivet School itself consists of an office big enough for four desks, a minifridge and some bookshelves.

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Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

The Hechinger Report

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. Freshly painted two-floor shingle houses sit next to beat-up trailers that lack regular access to electricity. Roark has a strategy he hopes will keep more young people in the county.

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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. When those factors are combined with abstinence-focused education, as they are in Texas, rates remain persistently high. It does not.).

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

The Hechinger Report

The federal share of Medicaid funding, for example, is capped at 55 percent (if Puerto Rico were a state, it could receive 83 percent), residents are denied certain disability benefits and there are restrictions on access to other funding, such as the child tax credit. A book in an elementary school library — El Apagón means The Blackout.