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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

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In grade school, Bowie and his younger brother were their mother’s pride and joy. Always at the top of their class, they were also fierce leaders of the debate team, and beat even the top local private schools. One day Bowie found his brother drenched in sweat and passed out at the school’s track.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

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Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

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It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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The route school buses can take toward racial equity

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all students between the ages of 5 and 21 who attend a public school, including charters and private schools, are eligible to ride the bus systems (Metrobus, DC Circulator) and rail system (Metrorail) to school and school related activities for free. Transportation is also a workforce issue. Weekly Update.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

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It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system.

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Silicon Valley aims its tech at helping low-income kids get beyond high school

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Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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New Orleans schools still struggle with integration

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The school focused on the arts and offered a project-based curriculum, and Otto had always been creative. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged.