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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

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Measuring Up is a suite of tools that supplements any classroom curriculum by offering standards-based instruction, practice, assessment, and reporting customized to many state or national standards–with the singular goal of assisting students in meeting English Language Arts, Mathematics, and/or Science standards. What is Measuring Up?

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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. Funders for the UIA completion grants include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is also a funder of The Hechinger Report.).

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How is STEM Education Shaping the Future of our Science Classes?

EdNews Daily

As high school dropout rates increase and the lack of motivation for students to learn science grows, the U.S. News and World Report , Latinos make up less than 10% of STEM-related careers. They can also help young people prevent the loss of future career opportunities. However, it is not an easy task. Latinos in STEM Education.

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

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Jackie Mader/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. Lumina is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.).

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. The report was provided jointly to The Hechinger Report and the Los Angeles Times. The pain from these debts is not felt evenly, researchers said.

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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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Rankings exodus raises the question: How should consumers pick a college?

The Hechinger Report

News & World Report rankings. News & World Report rankings. Data is collected by the nonprofit journalism organization The Hechinger Report and comes from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System of the National Center for Education Statistics, which in turn is an arm of the U.S. Harvard Yard.

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