No show, no skills — but they got into college
Ballou High graduates celebrate in June. Every senior was admitted to college at Washington D.C.’s low-performing Ballou High in June. Most had applied to the open-admission community college that’s...
View ArticleRequiring the impossible leads to fraud
Abdullah Zaki, named District of Columbia Public Schools’ “principal of the year” in 2013, has been placed on leave for changing attendance records and not reporting suspensions. Washington, D.C....
View ArticleHonest diplomas
The only way to award honest high school diplomas is to give students a choice of meeting basic, career-ready or university-ready standards. Requiring all students to meet “college- and career-ready...
View ArticleWearing What You Want At Graduation
Over at my own blog I posted about a Nebraska student who was told she could not wear an army sash over her gown at her high school graduation. Was this the right call? Please take a read and leave a...
View ArticleCounselors are the first to be cut
Colorado is investing in school counselors to improve success rates for low-income students reports Hechinger’s Sarah Gonser. As of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, graduation...
View ArticleDon’t tie diploma to college-prep coursework
Requiring college-prep coursework to earn a diploma is a mistake, writes Russell Rumberger on EdSource. An emeritus University of California at Santa Barbara education professor, he is director of the...
View Article‘College for all’ works — for 16% of students
Our education system fails most students, argues Oren Cass, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of How the Other Half Learns. Looking at students entering ninth grade, only 16 percent...
View ArticleHow schools fail special-ed students
Almost all students with disabilities are capable of graduating from high school on time, writes Hechinger’s Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader. Yet only 65 percent earn a diploma in four years,...
View ArticleDual-credit students do better in college
College students who took at least one college course in high school were more likely to earn a four-year degree than similar students who didn’t participate in dual-enrollment programs, concludes an...
View ArticleWhich colleges raise earnings?
University of California at Irvine tops Educate to Career’s college rankings, which compares how well colleges improve students’ labor market outcomes. This June, 54 percent of graduates were...
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