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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

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Related: PROOF POINTS: Shop class sometimes boosts college going, Massachusetts study finds. Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5 For instance, if a student engages in horseplay while holding a welding torch, students and teachers could be put at risk. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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VHS Learning Elects Dr. Yolanda D. Johnson to its Board of Directors

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Dr. Johnson currently serves as the Executive Officer for Student Services at Springfield Public Schools, where she oversees school counseling and social work services, dropout prevention and graduation improvement strategies, and college access and success initiatives. Johnson to its board of directors. Dr. Johnson holds a B.A.

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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

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While pre-Ks, elementary schools and some schools for children with complex disabilities reopened in December, there is still no plan to reopen middle and high schools. Unsurprisingly, such foundational STEM disparities extend far beyond secondary school education. Related: We must boost elementary science education.

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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

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Study after study, researcher after researcher, finds the same few things about retention: No long-term achievement gains. Significantly higher dropout rates. For example, one study showed that 65% to 90% of overage children in grade 9 do not persist to graduation. Back in January 2014, I noted that. Lower life success.

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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

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He remembers thinking it looked like a book you’d find in an elementary school, with a picture of the numbers 1 through 9 written in the sand of a beach on the cover. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. In Maryland, 14 percent of students in special education dropped out of school.

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Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

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In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” The resulting program allows at-risk students to stay enrolled in high school while they study for, then take, the HiSET – at no cost to the student. She adored the principal, Mary Haynes-Smith.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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Sanborn Regional High School student Jailee Thibeault does research during her social studies class. Each year, districts and schools were rated based on whether their elementary school kids performed better than the prior year’s students in math and English. Each student chose a different figure from the American Civil War to profile.