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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. There were disappointments in other years, too.

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

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Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. 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.

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

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Nearly a third are 14 or younger and another 18 percent are 15 to 24, Statistics Canada reports , meaning they’re college age, or will be soon. Nationally, about 4 percent of Canadians are indigenous, up from 3 percent in 2001. Lumina is a funder of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.) In Canada, an even lower 9.8

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. PROVIDENCE, R.I. The George W.

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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.