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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. But some STEM majors are tougher than others.

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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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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

In McDowell, educators aren’t reacting to problems, they’re seeking preemptive solutions, trying to stem the tide of generational poverty and trauma. Now, she’s the most outspoken person you’ll ever meet,” he said. The district also sponsored its first 3-day home-visiting conference in late November for teachers. Rural ones.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

The Hechinger Report

Rather than operating schools, it is our job to approve who has the privilege to operate a school,” Lewis said at an October 2018 press conference. At an Orleans Parish School Board school board meeting last December, Lewis was seated on the dais touting a major victory for his administration. Change, but what kind?

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” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Republican Proposal Would Make Trump University Lawsuits ‘Almost Impossible’ ” Via The Washington Post : “ Chance the Rapper is meeting with Illinois ’ governor about education funding.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

And even before June’s historic civil rights protests, the issue of racism permeated the National Association for Gifted Children’s (largely white) November 2019 conference in Albuquerque. There are gifted dropouts. The New York City and Seattle school districts have considered proposals to eliminate gifted education altogether.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. He graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016. After that, she’d head back to the dorm, which stays open year-round for students like her.

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