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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

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However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Dual-enrollment programs are helping improve students’ career readiness by exposing them to college-level courses while still in high school.

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Community college students get double the support through unusual dual-teacher program

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Students fresh out of high school had an easier time remembering chemistry and math, Purvis said, but she hadn’t studied those subjects for 10 years. “We After high school, Purvis spent six years as a cook in the Navy, and took classes at a couple other colleges. She doesn’t think she would have passed without I-BEST.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

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BOSTON — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. He was speaking during a break in a city program for promising local high school students to study calculus for five hours a day throughout the summer at Northeastern University.

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COLUMN: Conservatives are embracing new alternative school models. Will the public?

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Valles was among the enthusiastic would-be innovators and entrepreneurs I met at least week’s Harvard Kennedy School conference, Emerging School Models: Moving From Alternative to Mainstream. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference.

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OPINION: Training programs are welcome, but let’s not overlook the benefits of a bachelor’s degree

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economy has undergone a technologically driven transformation, providing larger monetary advantages to workers who have education or training beyond a high school diploma. million higher than for those with no more than a high school diploma. Since the 1980s, the U.S.

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A school closure cliff is coming. Black and Hispanic students are likely to bear the brunt

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The plan the school board approved, which weighed which schools had the most empty space and inadequate facilities, closed two of its top-performing and majority Black and Hispanic high schools. Dee, a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. How they treated us, it’s just so unfair,” Magee said.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

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Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report The majority of people sent to prison enter without a high school diploma or a GED certificate, yet almost 70 percent of those who are incarcerated hope to obtain a postsecondary credential. He said of Project Rebound’s John Irwin House, “I think we’re all just grateful.”

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