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PROOF POINTS: New wave of research shows nudging students by text is not as promising as hoped

The Hechinger Report

High school seniors were targeted, as were college dropouts who wanted to resume their studies. Researchers sent texts about how to fill out financial aid forms, how to collect the required information and deadlines. (1/2) College enrollment didn’t budge, nor did the amount of financial aid that students received.

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

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In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. Often, personalized learning includes technology that adapts lessons to students’ needs and provides data so that teachers can see how each learner is growing.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

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The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

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When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students.

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Held back, but not helped

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Early this past December, the state released guidance to explain how to institute alternatives to retention in fourth grade, to comply with a resolution passed by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in October. Students who failed LEAP suddenly have more options than pass or fail.

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Special education’s hidden racial gap

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Because of this diagnosis, an individualized education plan (IEP) — documents detailing Colson’s special needs, and a plan for how his school would help him reach his potential — was already in place when Colson arrived for his first day of school. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

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In an email, she included an excerpt from the document: “The department is committed to ensuring that all students have educational opportunities that prepare them for college, careers, and life. Educators are very fearful on how to even start that discussion, much less continue to teach it in the classroom.

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