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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...

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Requiring 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....

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Honest 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...

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Wearing 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...

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Counselors 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...

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Don’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...

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‘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...

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How 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,...

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Dual-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...

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Which 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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