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In education in the United States, reclassification or reclassing is the assignment of a student's high school (secondary school) graduation class to either a year earlier or later than their original. For young athletes, graduating a year earlier frees them to start their college sports career, with the hope of playing professionally sooner.
Grade retention or grade repetition is the process of a student repeating a grade after failing the previous year.. In the United States of America, grade retention can be used in kindergarten through to third grade; however, students in high school are usually only retained in the specific failed subject.
Advanced class – Used for a student who is notably advanced in a single subject. This involves changing a student's class assignment for that single subject. For example, an eighth-grade student might take a math class with ninth graders, but the rest of the student's classes are with the age-typical peers.
The college counselor at my high school told me that she’s seen kids not apply to certain universities after hearing that fellow classmates whom they considered to be better students were applying.
As summer begins to wind down, most children and teenagers across the U.S. are getting ready to head back to school. Not far behind the start of the school year is the typical start of the season ...
The shift to online instruction as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic had some pros and cons for college students. But most said they were more distracted.
A study by the Pew Research Center, claimed that "Young Hispanic college students are less likely than their white counterparts to enroll in a four-year college (56 percent versus 72 percent), they are less likely to attend a selective college, less likely to be enrolled in college full time, and less likely to complete a bachelor's degree."
They will give students some common-sense protections like clear information on the true cost of college and access to their transcripts when their courses were federally funded."