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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

The state enforced strict policies to retain children who failed high stakes tests, ballooning the ranks of those who were held back. But they have much better tools than they did in 2005 when the retention policy was put into place,” he said. And that means that the retention policy should change with the times.”.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Even students with cognitive delays may be able to attend modified post-secondary programs if given adequate preparation and encouragement in school. Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In

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We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

The Hechinger Report

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. ” The Business of Student Loans. .” How much can you afford?

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