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With the Help of Google and SF Muni, A Bus Sets Off to Serve City's High School Dropouts

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The organization made its mark in 2003 when they created the nation’s first county jail charter school. Now, Good and his team are trying to solve a new problem: helping high school dropouts get their diplomas in the face of strict gang lines, rundown schools, and spotty internet. percent of which are high school dropouts.

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PBS to Present “Spotlight Education,” A Special Week of Programming Featuring Reports About America’s Students and New Models of Learning, September 12-17

EdNews Daily

In a one-hour special, FRONTLINE presents two films that build on its education reporting. “A American Graduate Day is a live, four-hour multiplatform broadcast, presented by WNET, that leverages the power and reach of public media to focus on those organizations and individual champions keeping kids on the path to graduation. .

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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The presentation featured Raymond McNulty, President of the Successful Practices Network, and Michael Conner, Ed.D., About the Presenters. McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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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. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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

The Hechinger Report

High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. In forerunners like Sanborn High, for example, 10th-grade math students are measured by how well they can design a community water tower and create a proposal that could be presented to the town.

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‘It’s really hard to parent from behind bars’

The Hechinger Report

She worked physically demanding jobs until 2003 when she was injured, went back to school for office administration and found a job working for an attorney. Parental incarceration can also harm a child’s literacy , since parents aren’t present to read to their kids. Growing up in Texas decades earlier, she struggled too.

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