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OPINION: Six ways to nurture high-aptitude math students in under-resourced schools

The Hechinger Report

Rather than letting these high-aptitude students founder, we must find ways to nurture their talent. Students from higher-income high schools graduate from college with majors in science, technology, engineering and math at twice the rate (16 percent) of those from low-income high schools (8 percent).

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

Dzindzichashvili enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005 after graduating from high school, commuting across the city from her family’s duplex in East Boston for class before heading home again to work at a law firm. Students like us were not the focus of the program,” she said. “A A lot of us felt invisible.”.

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

The Hechinger Report

Middle-skills jobs, which include positions in fields such as health care, IT, and sales, require some training or education beyond high school, although not necessarily a B.A. between now and 2027. For those with no bachelor’s but more than a high school diploma, the share of good jobs drops to 40 percent.