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

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Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. Colleges often don’t recoup much money and former students can have their credit destroyed.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. I didn’t even know how to contact my advisor to declare a major. Then when you do find them, the offices are closed.”. Even upperclassmen, who are further along, have suffered setbacks. Gregory VanDyke Jr.,

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Dropout Detective Offers Academic ‘Credit Scores’—But Is That a Good Thing?

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That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. But Chris Munzo, executive vice president of AspirEDU (and fan of metaphors), compares Dropout Detective to a gym membership—it only works if you use it.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. So it’s easy for me to show them how to do it, show them my way,” said Obimma. It’s a long road of recovery.” I love math.

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

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Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? I do not want to take classes online and I don’t want to miss out on football games and the whole college experience,” Fogel said.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

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Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It