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Why Esports in Schools is a Good Thing

ViewSonic Education

Educators know that taking part in extracurricular activities boosts student success. They do better in math and reading and more often aspire to higher education. They care more about their education. More likely to aspire to higher education. We know that involved students are more likely to go on to higher education.

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Maximizing COVID Relief Funding and Its Effectiveness

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In 2021, the America’s Response Program Act (ARPA) added $126 billion to those funds. A very wide range of district programs can qualify for the latest funding, including access to school facilities, educational and professional development needs, and the use of technology to sustain and improve the educational environment.

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Nepal says students have a right to learn in their native languages —but it still isn’t happening

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story about education in Nepal was produced by Global Press Journal and is reprinted with permission. Bikram Mani Tripathi, education expert Consequently, many non-Nepali speakers send their children to schools across the border in neighboring India. 2021 census language data was unavailable.)

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. But we know from an analysis of federal data that nationally, one in five college students is parenting, more than a third of Black college students are parents, and nearly half of all Black female undergraduates are mothers.

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

Ten years after those rules around health and safety were put in place, over a dozen states are failing to fulfill all the reporting requirements, an in-depth analysis from The 19th found. I was a little taken aback,” said Sims, who went on to found The Abecedarian Group, a child care and education consulting agency.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Selma Casagranda, 18, and Annika Nilsson, 17, ride the Nilsson family ATV along Lost Creek — the stream that floods Nilsson’s neighborhood in Seward, Alaska, each fall — and point to where a house once stood before flood waters made the property useless. Mike Dunleavy, a former educator. In 2014, the U.S. billion and $5.5

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