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OPINION: Instead of panicking over test scores, let’s rethink how we measure learning and student success

The Hechinger Report

Research in economics and psychology shows that these tests fail to measure key traits like perseverance, motivation and conscientiousness qualities that strongly predict long-term success. Meanwhile, factors like ninth grade GPA and attendance may be better predictors of high school graduation rates than any standardized test.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. Department of Education.

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Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads

The Hechinger Report

And rural students graduate from high school at higher rates than their urban, and about the same levels as their suburban, counterparts. But only 59 percent then go straight to college, compared to 62 percent of urban and 67 percent of suburban high school graduates, according to the National Student Clearinghouse , which tracks this.

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PROOF POINTS: Overscheduling kids’ lives causes depression and anxiety, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Now a trio of economists say they’ve been able to calculate some of these psychological costs. We’re not saying that all these activities are bad, but that the total is bad,” said Carolina Caetano, one of the study’s authors and an assistant professor of economics at the University of Georgia. One question Caetano has concerns timing.

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Meet Digital Promise’s New President and CEO Jean-Claude Brizard

Digital Promise

Another thing we can all do is to not have a myopic view of success, meaning that we don’t just look at students reaching math and reading proficiency by the end of high school. The education system needs to consider a grander vision of success that includes economic stability and positive life outcomes.

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OPINION: As a Black middle-school student, I was tracked into lower-level math classes that kept me back

The Hechinger Report

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school. And the truth is, I do now, although that wasn’t always the case.

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Is ‘Crisis’ Thinking About Youth Mental Health Doing More Harm Than Good?

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One of the biggest challenges to making communities that are overall better for youth mental health is the very way the issue is talked about, says Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute and a psychological anthropologist. What Motivates the Adolescent Brain? The campaign didn’t land.