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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Ray has served as Chair of the National Dropout Prevention Network and was the chief learning officer for Penn Foster, a global leader in online education. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

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Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages. SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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The previous federal law, the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, required states to develop and give standardized tests in third to eighth grade. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. Sanborn Regional High School art teacher Jillian Swist works with students.

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Who will Teach the Children?

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Department of Labor figures, that teachers are quitting their jobs at record rates, since such records began to be kept in 2001. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem. The Wall Street Journal reported at the end of 2018, using U.S. Why are teachers, and others in the field, leaving?

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A new test that no student would dread — one that leads to citizenship

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Doe that public elementary and secondary schools couldn’t consider immigration status when a student seeks to enroll. But better even than DACA is the DREAM Act — or the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, which was originally introduced in 2001 by Sen. The 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v. Then came 9/11.