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OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

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A recent working paper by economists Kirsten Slungaard Mumma and Marcus Winters compared students who scored just below the threshold for third grade retention on the Mississippi ELA test in 2014-15 with those who scored just a bit above that threshold, tracing the students’ performance for several years. Pallas is the Arthur I.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. Paula was in my Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S.

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What happens when teachers run the school

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In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Today, Junge’s group, which coined the term “teacher-powered” in 2014, identifies roughly 300 schools nationwide that follow the model.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

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The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In 2014, the high school was chosen as the top urban high school in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation. We watch the show and dissect it.”. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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Recently, she started classes toward a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and learning at the University of Louisville. Thompson, whose father “was an illiterate coal miner” and mother only completed eighth grade, but who earned a doctorate in sociology, said raising educational levels is critical to prosperity in the state.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

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In 2014, Pierre enlisted in the Air Force, intending to use his salary and the G.I. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Williams loved Delgado so much that she kept going even after she had to take a second job in 2014.

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Deadlines, endless forms, constant college prep pressure: Is the finish line in sight?

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By 2014, just about half of low-income high school students enrolled in college immediately, compared with 81 percent of high-income graduates, according to the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education. Goals: To get into a school I am excited about and have the financial support to actually attend; to study sociology.