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  • More Latinx students gain diplomas on time thanks to 'early college'

    October 29, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Some of California's rural counties with large Latinx populations are turning to early college models to improve high school graduation and college enrollment rates. Dual enrollment programs aim to help students earn a two-year college certificate or degree upon completion of high school.

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  • A district wades through a deluge of social-emotional learning curricula

    October 24, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Bristol, Virginia

    As the education community increasingly raises up social-emotional curricula as a solution to rising anxiety levels in young children, it can be hard for schools to know which of the countless programs and curricula are actually effective. One district in Virginia might have found a promising model — Bristol's schools have made several simple changes to give students the space to talk openly about their emotions and are seeing clear academic improvements.

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  • Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

    October 21, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hyden, Kentucky

    In a former mining county in Kentucky, a high school principal is leveraging partnerships and raising expectations to both encourage students to complete high school and pursue college classes and to stay to work in the county. The school now boasts a 99 percent graduation rate and new programs to attract high-quality teachers.

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  • Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

    October 10, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States

    As enrollments decline and finances increasingly pose problems, institutions of higher education are taking a number of creative approaches, chief among them, merging with other schools and accelerating degree program timelines.

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  • Two Percent of Teachers Are Black Men. A City Is Trying to Recruit More.

    September 10, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    The Brothers Empowered to Teach (BE2T) initiative recruits college-age people of color to teach in schools in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The fellowship program aims to build a workforce more representative of the races and backgrounds of students in local schools and provides a stipend to student-teachers as one additional way to help with the cost of college.

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  • A school where character matters as much as academics

    September 03, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    At Capital City Public Charter School, students are graded based not only on academic skills but also social and emotional skills. The Washington D.C. school has a high graduation rate and college enrollment rate.

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  • College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer' counseling is helping keep them alive.

    August 30, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A "near-peer" mentoring program offers a promising model for similar initiatives working to prevent "summer melt" for low-income students in the summer between their graduation from high school and arrival at college. College-age mentors provide in-person coaching and respond to texts about financial aid and other concerns.

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  • Using virtual reality to help students with disabilities

    August 29, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Danvers, Massachusetts

    In the Danvers, Massachusetts, school district, virtual reality technology allows students with disabilities to walk through the hallways of their middle school before the first day of classes or take field trips at their own pace as part of life skills classes. The district's technology director believes this a key "low-stakes opportunity to practice critical life skills."

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  • To help first-generation students succeed, colleges enlist their parents

    August 15, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Today, one in three college students is the first in their family to attend college; of these first-generation students, about a third drop out. A growing number of higher education institutions are reaching out to parents as one way to improve retention rates -- from offering online courses about life on campus to creating programming for parents during standard orientation schedules, colleges are increasing the chances that students make it through the challenging first year.

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  • Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped

    August 07, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Somerville, Massachusetts

    In 2016, a proposal for a new innovation school which would incorporate elements of private and charter schools into a public school in Somerville, Massachusetts won a $10 million XQ grant, funding awarded to promising nontraditional high schools. Despite years of planning and early support from town leaders, in 2019, the school was unanimously vetoed by the school committee. Why did the plan fall through?

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