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STUDENT VOICES: Transfer schools offer a second chance to graduate high school

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In an effort to reengage recent dropouts, Good Shepherd founded South Brooklyn Community High School. South Brooklyn emphasized social-emotional learning, a high counselor-to-student ratio and paid internships. But by the time Mayor Michael Bloomberg came into office in 2002, South Brooklyn was showing signs of promise.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

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Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 They learn something in one language and build on it in the other.

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Alabama Policymakers Explore How to Increase Early Literacy Proficiency

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Learning to read by the end of third grade is the gateway to lifelong success. In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade. Ensuring all kids can read by the end of third grade sets them on the path to learn, graduate and succeed.

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When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

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Wages climbed for college grads in the 1970s and 80s, says Mishel, but since 2002 wage growth for people with a bachelors has been stagnant. With this in mind, more school districts and local governments are trying to identify lower-cost learning opportunities that can still vault students into well-paying careers.

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

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At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Bailey Fraser, 15 (left), and her stepsister Leah Kimball, 15, volunteer with Edible Bethel during their service learning block. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

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To her left, Makayla offered: “My sunshine share is the part where we learned about oak trees.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. And yet, the increased popularity of social-emotional learning has given rise to concern about ineffective, or even harmful, curricula entering schools. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

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A mother of two, Amy Nalesnik felt her heart drop when she learned the campus day care center she had hoped would watch her kids all day was being evicted. Amy Nalesnik, a 29-year-old pregnant mother of two, who had to find another place to put them after the day care center at her university shut down. Courtesy of Amy Nalesnik.

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