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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

The Hechinger Report

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. His father was a college-educated aerospace engineer. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018.

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Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ High School Dropout.

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But no one who knew him back when he was a student, including Anthony, predicted that he would rise to become a model of education leadership and innovation. Today, Anthony is an award-winning educator. He is one of 30 international TED-Ed Innovative Educators of 2016. Anthony hated school as a child.

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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

The Hechinger Report

A special education student at South Hills High School takes an online quiz about RNA. The district’s reforms to special education have included making sure students use the same textbooks as their general education peers. They moved special education classrooms to be more centrally located. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

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We teachers recognize it is our fiduciary responsibility to fulfill state and national education standards that prepare students for college or career. This is where Mastery Education’s Measuring Up can help. How curriculum-based assessment improves education. In math, it was 41 percent. What is Measuring Up?

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom.

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When Employment is the Goal, Should 'Student Success' Include Dropouts?

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At the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Community & Technical College, Associate Dean Kim Griffis says dropouts aren’t considered a failure, if the student has landed a job in the technical field they were training for. Kim Griffis. But some colleges have a different perspective on the matter. Graduation rates are not the whole story.”.

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How Childhood Experiences Contribute to the Education-Health Link

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The interconnection between education and health is well established. The highest percent of smoking is seen among persons with less than a high school or General Educational Development (GED) high school equivalency diploma , and the lowest is among persons with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Read the original article.

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