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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Edward Lara started as a campus coach in July of 2017 and works with about 22 students. He graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016. Seita scholars are assigned a campus coach, a full-time staff person who plays the role of social worker, parent and superhero.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls.

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APRIL 29, 2019

When the charter group took over the historic Eleanor McMain High School in 2017, the school still had a colorful mural that had been added to by each graduating class since 1986. He’s promised to add ACT prep, more Advanced Placement courses, and maybe even a STEM program.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

In 2017 it banned suspensions for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. Black girls, like Hatten’s daughter, face the starkest disparities: During the 2017-18 school year, the last for which there is nationwide data, Black girls made up just 7 percent of all girls in public schools but 45 percent of girls who were suspended.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cruey’s wife, Cheryl, who was principal of Southside K-8 until retiring at the end of the 2017-2018 school year, mentors three siblings in the district. Overall, there’s been an increase in graduation rates and a decrease in dropouts. Photo: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost. After school and on weekends, too, the work continues.

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APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Local government and foundations have teamed together to give public high school graduates a tuition-free year at any of the nine local colleges, starting in the fall of 2017. “ The dropout rate is around 70 percent. I tell high school students, “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.”. Community college is not perfect.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Student-Loan Borrowers , by Age Group, Amount Owed, and Repayment Status, 2017.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.”

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. ” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” link] — Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) December 11, 2017. ” The Business of Student Loans. .” How much can you afford?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In this May 15, 2017, file photo, James Piazza, right, seated with his wife Evelyn, center, and son Michael, left, holds back emotions while discussing the death of his son, Penn State University fraternity pledge Tim Piazza, during an interview in New York.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories?

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JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of Louisville ’s head basketball coach has been suspended for the first five Atlantic Coast Conference games of the season, a piece of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s punishment stemming from a prostitution scandal that has roiled the institution for two years.”

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MARCH 3, 2017

” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” Via The Atlantic : “The STEM Superhero of Sesame Street.” ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.” ” Here’s the Department of Education press release.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Many, like Luís, came without their parents; Suffolk County received more than 1,000 unaccompanied minors in the 2017 fiscal year , according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Patchogue-Medford’s four-year graduation rate for Hispanic students was 74 percent in 2017 , compared to 93 percent for white students.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Me: pic.twitter.com/gmb3Oigcv0 — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) October 5, 2017. Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” pic.twitter.com/yehgZ82br6 — Shahien Nasiripour (@nasiripour) October 5, 2017. 2 Post at Ed. Shares closed at $13.46

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” pic.twitter.com/lfNWyW7z5f — Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 28, 2017.

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