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

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Have you ever wondered how to achieve higher SAT scores? I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. I also noticed how many students lost opportunities. SAT Scores: A New Number. Therefore, they moved to Las Vegas and purchased a budget motel.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

The Hechinger Report

At community colleges, for instance, “A lot of people actually have maybe 75, 80 credits and could get an associate’s degree, but there’s something bureaucratic that’s standing in their way, like a parking fine, a library fine, they didn’t pay the graduation fee,” said Moses. Lots of these trivial things that occur.”.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. Some slid into depression.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. Data analysis is being used to pinpoint bottlenecks, such as those overcrowded courses. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Analysis from Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein : “‘Alternative Pathways:’ How to Rethink Vocational Education.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” From the press release : “ Big Data Analysis Helps Students Choose College Majors.” ”).