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

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Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. Large payoffs, both for the individual and society, may lie here if political leaders are willing to commit the financial resources. 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

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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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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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professor called “the behemoth to the north,” in Columbus, have more financial resources. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. Meanwhile, flagships and major research campuses saw a 1.4 percent rise in enrollment. Plus, flagships like Ohio State, which one O.U. In-state tuition is less there, $11,518. And unlike O.U.,

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Held back, but not helped

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Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. Certainly, Louisiana schools still have limited resources and tools to help struggling students, White said. 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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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

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Teachers, resources and programs for McDonogh 35 disappeared. Alumni of the historic black high school accused the school district of starving the school of resources as the district shifted its focus from the business of running schools, to the business of authorizing charters. Now she wants others to learn that history.

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

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The once-steady flow of international students to the United States increased every year from 2005 until 2019 , when anti-immigration sentiment, tension with China and other problems began to chip away at the numbers. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.

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

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Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. For instance: Using achievement tests, which better measure a child’s schooling and home resources than their potential. It’s not just Buffalo.

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