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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School. Congress to accelerate innovation in education.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

The Hechinger Report

As of 2016, Louisiana and 23 other states had alternative diploma or certificate options specifically for students with disabilities, each state with its own system. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Here’s why they’re not.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year. At Generation Hope, we are building a policy and advocacy agenda driven by student parents all over the country that will prioritize removing financial barriers to college completion for Black parents.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

The Hechinger Report

Black women earn just 61 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts, according to analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Pay Today. Native American women and Latinas earn 58 cents and 53 cents, respectively for every dollar earned by a white male.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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