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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

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Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET. In 2014, the old GED the exam was revamped and the two new exams, TASC and HiSET, entered the market.

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

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Between 2004 and 2014, Ohio cut funding for a college grant program for low-income students by 33 percent. Turner attended Ashtabula’s high school, Lakeside High, where almost every student is economically disadvantaged. Diverse college classrooms can help students sharpen their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

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I don’t think there’s a desire to get into this space, other than that it’s not.”. million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. Economics is also driving students to sign up for computer-science majors. CompTIA projects that 1.8

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

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The state is making a sizable investment in these schools, with an eye toward fueling its economic engines by teaching students how to play a role in high-need, growing fields like advanced manufacturing and health services. Just over 18 percent of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged. Xerras said afterward.).

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More than five years after adopting Common Core, Kentucky’s black-white achievement gap is widening

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Teachers are supposed to make children partners in the acquisition of knowledge, helping them to see that math isn’t only — or even mainly — about right answers, it’s about exploration and discovery, and the sort of critical thinking and problem-solving they’ll do in college some day. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky.

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Who is the new U.S. Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona?

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In 2014, the task force Cardona led with Harp produced a master plan with dozens of recommendations to eliminate that gap, including the provision of full day, accredited preschool for all low-income children and an initiative to ensure that every Connecticut parent have at least a high school degree. They have a voice — right?

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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

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You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. He got his associate’s degree from Essex County Community College and transferred to Rutgers, which he chose for its connection to Newark and so he could study with urban historian Clement Price (who died in 2014).

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