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... explain the problem step by step, it wouldn't be as fast, it will be at your pace." As schools struggle to raise high school graduation rates and close the persistent achievement gap for minority and low-income students, many educators tout digital technology in the classroom as a way ...
The surprising result, published this week in the journal Science, suggests a new way to combat the persistent achievement gap in grades, test scores and graduation rates between black and white students, according to the researchers."The intervention is relatively brief, but it's powerful in a lot of ways ...
... for states and districts to intervene when schools are struggling, as you say, in the bottom 5 percent, but also schools that have chronically low graduation rates, schools that have significant achievement gaps, where subgroups, African-American students, Latino students, English learners, if those subgroups are underperforming, states and districts ...
Robert Smith: You know, they had already bet on themselves, which is very important. You know, from my perspective, you know, they're at the point of graduation, it taken out the student loans. And I really started to evaluate, you know, if I were going to do something to ...
... states, gaps between these subgroups and their peers are 25 percentage points and higher. We also are learning more about students who experience homelessness, whose graduation rates across the eight states that measure them are the lowest in the nation. All these gaps call into the question the state obligation ...
... Stanback hopes to get a job in human resources. DIAMOND STANBACK: I feel like I'm doing something more with my life. HARI SREENIVASAN: After graduation this June, Luis Ramos plans to pursue a bachelor's degree. In a recent ranking from Stanford University, students like Ramos, Stanback, and Ortiz ...
... voted to make computer science an official part of the district's curriculum. For 400,000 Chicago students, computer science education will now be a graduation requirement, mandating that every high schools student take at least one class on the topic over four years. More than 28 states have passed ...
... something Carolyn Lam thinks about often. Just one in five students in her medical school class in Singapore in the early 1990s were women. After graduation, Lam entered a male-dominated specialty — cardiology. Still, she doesn’t fault the system entirely for the gender gap among first authors. In part ...
President Barack Obama's daughter Malia will take a year off after graduating high school in June before attending Harvard University in 2017, the president and his wife said Sunday in a long-awaited announcement.
WASHINGTON — The Education Department said Tuesday that the rate for the 2013-14 school year -- up from 81 percent the previous year -- was the highest since it started using a new, uniform measure in 2010. Still, the numbers show nearly 1 in 5 students leaving high school without a diploma.
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