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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

The Hechinger Report

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.

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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting. And it’s about acculturation,” she said. “It It is not a place that allows us to embrace who we are.”.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students

ED Surge

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

ED Surge

During the last pre-pandemic college application cycle, 2018-19, nearly 1.2 Overall, they found that 24 percent of students who started the Common App in 2018-19 did not complete it. Lozada, 21, now assists students preparing for college at her high school alma mater, the Facing History School several blocks away from John Jay.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

ED Surge

That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. Duffield has been a longtime advocate, with a history of working on federal policy for homeless education. Some people are convinced that homeless-only schools are a bad idea.

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