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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. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers.

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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. As with current Pell grants and student loans, taxpayers don’t want to fund a new pool of dropouts. It could be twice as many.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent).

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In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates

The Hechinger Report

Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six — all at a time when the region desperately needs more college grads. Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six.

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

Dzindzichashvili enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005 after graduating from high school, commuting across the city from her family’s duplex in East Boston for class before heading home again to work at a law firm.

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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. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

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. Certainly, Louisiana schools still have limited resources and tools to help struggling students, White said.

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