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STUDENT VOICE: Black boys need the guidance and mentorship of black male teachers

The Hechinger Report

Studies show that the effect of having a black male teacher, especially between grades 3 and 5, decreases the dropout rate among black male students by 30 percent and increases the likelihood of black students aspiring to higher education.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

The Hechinger Report

An entire forest of potential future graduates is now imperiled by the cataclysmic pandemic that has large numbers of students saying they will delay their higher educations, take time off, opt for community college or shift to studying part time. But studying part time also significantly lowers success rates.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 billion a year in forgone tuition revenue, one study found.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. Two out of every three high school seniors graduate with an Advanced Studies Diploma, 30 percent higher than the state average for all school divisions. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. When Lake Tahoe Community College District canceled pandemic debts for 457 students last year, it found that 152 of them immediately re-enrolled to resume their studies. “If

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I I couldn’t study the way I wanted to.”.

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