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Big news in tiny Onalaska, Washington: All 43 grads were accepted to college

Katherine Long

June 05, 2017 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Onalaska, Washington

Responding to a changing economy in rural Washington state, one high school has added more relevant vocational programs and started requiring students to take a daily 50-minute class on the college application process. Seniors learn how to write college essays, fill out financial aid forms, and more. In 2017, all 40+ graduates were accepted to college.

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Just 20% of kids got 4-year degrees, so Chehalis schools changed everything

Katherine Long

June 02, 2017 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Chehalis, Washington

The Chehalis school district has teamed up with the Chehalis Foundation to support students pursue higher education after high school. Only 15% of adults in the area have a bachelor's degree, and only 20% of graduating high school seniors earn a four-year degree. Now, the district is working to transform itself by retraining teachers to provide more rigorous lessons, placing emphasis on college preparation, and demystifying the college application and financial process for students and their families.

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From foster care to college: Seattle University blazes a new path

Katherine Long

December 19, 2015 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Only a fraction of kids in foster care go to college, and even fewer graduate. The small but successful scholarship program at Seattle University aims to change that by specifically helping students from foster care.

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Evergreen, a state college too few know about

Katherine Long

May 09, 2015 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Olympia, Washington

At Evergreen College, students take fewer classes for longer durations and are instructed by teams of teachers who have not been sorted out by subject departments. As a result, students’ education is exploratory and often self-directed, rather than geared towards grades and tests.

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Community-college students learn math by using it

Katherine Long

April 06, 2015 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Many students who are funneled into remedial courses don't end up completing their community college degrees. For the past decade, I-BEST has offered students a hands-on approach, connecting academic work with direct job skills training to make classroom content less theoretical. Called "the most-copied idea to come out of Washington’s community-college system," I-BEST has increased students' likelihood of learning a credential by nine times.

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UW, WSU give future engineers a ‘redshirt season'”

Katherine Long

November 29, 2014 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

In an idea borrowed from college athletics called redshirting, STARS enrolls promising engineering students — many of them women and minorities — to give them an additional year of collegiate academic work before they’re ready for the big time. A similar program is in its second year at Washington State University.

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Fewer dropouts, more degrees: How Walla Walla Community College does it

Katherine Long

May 17, 2014 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Walla Walla, Washington

Individualized advice and counseling, boosted by software tools, is helping hundreds more students earn degrees and certificates each year at Walla Walla Community College in Washington.

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Mentors have message for kids: Go to college

Katherine Long

February 08, 2014 |

The Seattle Times |

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Response Location: United States, Bellingham, Washington

Fewer than one in four high-school graduates in the Sedro-Woolley and Meridian school districts, for example, go to four-year colleges. Just a little over half of all graduates in surrounding districts go to college at all. Now, the schools have begun to send college students into middle schools and high schools to mentor them and excite them to go to college.

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