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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

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Now, she spends four days a week in an unusually small seminar-style calculus class with 31 other aspiring mathematicians and engineers. “I And many educators, both in high school and college, had trouble accurately assessing their students’ progress. She retook precalculus and earned an A. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

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The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs. Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

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That evolution has sped up since 2001, when the state introduced a requirement that students pass a statewide assessment (known as the MCAS) to earn a high school diploma. Vocational high schools asked for an exemption from the new rule but the state held firm, forcing those campuses to “step up their academic game,” Driscoll said.

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Largely unseen and unsupported, huge numbers of student fathers are quitting college

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Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. Adrian Huerta, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, has a similar assessment. Related: A surprising reason keeping students from finishing college: A lack of transportation. The program also provides weekly stipends.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade. Photo: Chris Berdik.