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Students parents suffer as more campus child care centers close

The Hechinger Report

These closures have spanned community colleges and public universities nationwide; In June 2020, the University of Vermont shuttered its campus-based child care center, reportedly to save around $550,000 in annual operating expenses. In 2015, 44 percent of community colleges offered on-campus childcare, compared to 53 percent in 2003.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

It’s a chilly Wednesday in April at the end of his last-ever quarterly meeting with the district’s parent advisory committee. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting. He takes off his glasses, wipes his eyes.

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This Texas college’s focus on mental health helps students work through trauma, stay on track

The Hechinger Report

From 2003 and 2017, researchers found that suicide rates rose among Black youth of all ages — with the biggest increase seen among the 15- to 17-year-olds, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Paul Quinn returned to in-person learning in the fall of 2020.

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Teacher licensing rules are one reason small schools don’t have enough teachers

The Hechinger Report

During a recent meeting of the Montana Legislature’s Education Interim Committee, Rep. In total, 137 Montana schools — 65 percent of which were classified as rural — employed unlicensed teachers during the 2020-21 school year. But word came back in spring 2020 that her paperwork was incomplete. Local News Fellowship.

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Maximizing COVID Relief Funding and Its Effectiveness

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This approach can be especially important when afterschool and summer school programs are being integrated with classroom instruction during the regular school day, and when funds are being used to meet the unique needs of English learners and other students with special learning requirements. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Boxlight.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

There were 236 papers presented with the word “online” in their titles at this year’s meeting of the American Educational Research Association, compared to 158 the year before the pandemic — a nearly 50 percent increase. A student walks through a mostly empty college campus in Irvine, California, in October 2020.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Understanding ESSER, ESF-REM, and GEER. Arati has an M.Ed.

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