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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. Today, as our children leave high school and enter the so-called “real world,” they are facing a world changing at an unprecedented pace.

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Getting the Excel and Photoshop Kids to Play Together: A Conversation with Georg Petschnigg of FiftyThree

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What follows has been lightly edited for clarity.when you look at the big and interesting challenges of the future, they will require multidisciplinary teams and multidisciplinary organizations to figure out the tools that people need to work together. You mentioned the multidisciplinary organization. Georg Petschnigg.

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Student-to-Counselor Ratios are Dangerously High. Here’s How Two Districts Are Tackling It.

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Students have always needed counseling services that go well beyond the college and career development that has become standard fare in American high schools. Across the country, districts small and large are working to bring that ratio down and to bolster their counseling and support services for students.