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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

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This is done through its standards-aligned assessment library or teacher-created assessments developed from a bank of over 60,000 standards-specific questions. When ready, students can access full-length practice tests as another method to self-assess progress. Measuring Up Live 2.0, Pick what interests you.

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OPINION: Misguided payment policies that fuel the college-dropout trap

The Hechinger Report

Even unpaid library fines and balances on campus cards can trigger a windfall of consequences that push thousands of students into debt and degree-less purgatory every year. Worse, he might also be denied access to his transcript, which means now he can’t transfer his earned credits to a cheaper institution to finish his degree program.

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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

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HOUSTON — Colorful college pennants line the walls in a small room at a public library branch in the city's Near Northside. Northside High was previously named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, and it was once labeled a “ dropout factory ” in a Johns Hopkins University study of institutions with low graduation rates.

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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

The Hechinger Report

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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Thriving SAT Scores: Meet Shaan Patel, Founder of Prep Expert and Shark Tank Winner

EdNews Daily

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. After hours of studying in the library, preparing and identifying patterns for the test, I was able to improve my score from 1760 to a perfect 2400. Therefore, they moved to Las Vegas and purchased a budget motel.

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Students, feeling nickel-and-dimed, force new scrutiny of college fees

The Hechinger Report

Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Dropout rates have also fallen. Think tuition is high?

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road. Her aim then was a law degree.

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