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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. But by the time Mayor Michael Bloomberg came into office in 2002, South Brooklyn was showing signs of promise. South Brooklyn emphasized social-emotional learning, a high counselor-to-student ratio and paid internships.

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

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This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. Higher education has long been viewed as the key to higher earnings and financial security. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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

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And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Related: Rising popularity of dual-language education could leave Latinos behind. I admire them for taking this on,” says Patricia Gándara, a bilingual education researcher and co-director of The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA.

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

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. Subscribe today! BRYANT POND, Maine — EB Hoff, 14, was running for class treasurer of the Class of 2022.

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We’re asking the wrong questions about early childhood education

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Forty-five now have public pre-K and state spending on pre-K has risen by nearly 300 percent since 2002, growing from $2.4 When this method is used, it’s impossible to tell how much of a program’s results are because parents self-select into the program and because dropout children are weeded out of the study.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Related: Most colleges enroll many students who aren’t prepared for higher education.

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Economic Impact of Suspending 10th Graders: $35 Billion, Study Says

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The national suspension data comes from sophomores surveyed as part of the Educational Longitudinal Survey of 2002. Slashing Dropout Rate Key to Turnaround in Mass. How much it costs, directly and indirectly, when a student drops out of high school. See also: Can an Increase in Empathy Lead to a Drop in Suspensions?

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