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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

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The study could be seen as evidence against remedial education, but it could equally be seen as evidence for letting college students meet their math requirements without taking algebra. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called. “We

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Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

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Research illuminates its impact: Elementary school students who miss 10% of school show weaker social skills development, lower reading ability, and higher grade-retention rates. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. The much-improved letter increased its impact by 40%.

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Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to ?microcredentials?

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And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? So we’re thinking, let’s look at this natural behavior we’re seeing and let’s try to meet it instead of fighting it.”. “That early milestone — the early win — is so motivating,” Gilbert said. No, it’s not.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

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There are pockets of poverty in the county that rival the Delta while Starkville is, by comparison, a wealthy town,” he said. Oktibbeha County really didn’t have the resources to meet state standards,” said Walter Conley, the former superintendent of Oktibbeha County School District. Others feared violence between students.

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

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This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.