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Alabama Policymakers Explore How to Increase Early Literacy Proficiency

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I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit Alabama yesterday to speak with the House Education Committee. In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade. In 2002, Florida’s fourth-grade readers performed far below the national average on NAEP.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Related: Most colleges enroll many students who aren’t prepared for higher education.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

Higher Education. Education officials also cite the counseling and mental-health services the school receives from a handful of local organizations. “It We don’t want it to be the education du jour,” he said. A third girl, dressed in a pink fleece, pointed at Groves while exclaiming: “My sunshine share is — you!”. Weekly Update.

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We’re asking the wrong questions about early childhood education

The Hechinger Report

Forty-five now have public pre-K and state spending on pre-K has risen by nearly 300 percent since 2002, growing from $2.4 For example, some studies focus only on a select group of children whose parents send them to pre-K, assessing the impact of a year of pre-K on children’s test scores in the first months of kindergarten.