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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

“You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

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Colleges system-wide increased tutoring and options for remote access. Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals. Karolewics talks with students Connor Williams (right), Will Phillips, and Gracie Burdettte Jasper on the Hanceville campus on the first day of classes for the fall semester on Aug.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

Data from the 2021 Healthy Minds Study shows 34 percent of college respondents struggling with anxiety disorder and 41 percent with depression — rates that have risen in recent years. The school also hired two intake and triage coordinators who screen students to assess what help they need.

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OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience

The Hechinger Report

As this spring’s high school seniors gear up for graduation, there’s a silver lining worth noting: The class of 2021 may be better prepared to take hold of their future than the classes before them. The advent of easily accessible mental telehealth counseling may be a game changer for students going forward.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

He said the fall 2021 semester of first-year calculus was the most difficult he’s had in his 50-year career. Other students faced barriers of access. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. His students were making basic errors in algebra and trigonometry from the beginning.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

But in May, sitting in the office of her school’s family support specialist, Joell Stubbe, Karolina talked excitedly about going to Buffalo State university, where she’s been accepted into the class of 2021. I would have been a dropout.”. At the outset a survey was conducted to assess the needs of schools, families and communities.

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EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us

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While this approach found some success in reducing the dropout rate of students who participated, there were no measurable improvements in achievement. While the students improved on the platform's assessment, they did not enjoy this kind of learning. Despite the money spent, our students have yet to recover from the learning loss.

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