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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

This has been a goal of Simon’s since she joined Long Beach Unified in fall 2013. percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: February 5, 2018. ” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. Kids Co-Creating Curriculum. Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e246. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

Since 2013, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of children like Nando fleeing poverty and violence in Central America. Still, between October 2018 and September 2019 more than 75,000 unaccompanied minors — children who arrived in the U.S. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tyrone Turner for WAMU.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. There are gifted dropouts. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college

The Hechinger Report

In Guatemala and El Salvador, around a quarter of students don’t even make it through elementary school, according to the World Bank, while in Honduras, about 17 percent of children don’t get past primary school. Her parents, who emigrated from Guatemala in 2000, were among those who never made it through elementary school.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” Via Getting Smart : “Using Robots to Teach Elementary Students About Human Nature.” From the World Bank blog : “A crisis in learning : 9 charts from the 2018 World Development Report.”