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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

So, even though incidents of bullying remained steady, in the 2016-2017 school year, there was a 3.5 Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. percent jump in those who were bullied or by text or online.

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

By 2013, Webster managed to graduate just 53 percent of its students, and it was clear to school and district officials that drastic change was in order. The change in the school culture since the Diplomas Now partnership began in 2013 is palpable, marked by rising expectations for students.

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How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?

The Hechinger Report

Some students don’t have internet access or the computers they now need to do their coursework. Maria Romo-Gonzalez, a 22-year-old senior at the University of California, Berkeley, struggles with spotty internet access; her mom’s salary as a grocery store cashier doesn’t allow for extras. But it would be hard if I lost my house, too.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. After that [first win], the parents were like, ‘Wait a minute, we have an award-winning theater club?

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017.

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As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back

The Hechinger Report

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 Applications fell again in 2017, but have since recovered, and the college exceeded its enrollment goals this year. million in 2013 to $15.4 million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing. Change is hard,” Engelkemeyer said.

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