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PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. In the remedial high school program, the students’ regular classroom teachers were paid overtime to stay after school and give extra instruction to the participants in small groups of two to five students.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

Education 145
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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said. So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go.

STEM 137
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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. But they have much better tools than they did in 2005 when the retention policy was put into place,” he said.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

The Hechinger Report

Simms was speaking in the light-filled but otherwise mostly empty classroom-sized space in a co-working building in downtown D.C. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Nobody talks about that.”. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

The Hechinger Report

Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. Lewis said streamlining his central office staff allowed more money to flow to classrooms and schools. Classrooms went without certified teachers or materials.

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

The Hechinger Report

His mother, Tyra Hales, signed him up for a youth team at a park near their home in Gentilly, a predominantly black neighborhood that was inundated by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters for weeks in 2005. From 3:30 to 6 p.m.

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