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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. Distance learning began March 23. Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. But it has proven elusive.

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When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk

The Hechinger Report

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalizelearning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. That law, known as Act 77, “opened up learning beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom,” says John Fischer, who was a deputy secretary of the Vermont Agency of Education at the time.

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Former Superintendent of the Year Mark Edwards to Join Discovery Education

Marketplace K-12

Superintendent Mark Edwards talked about the Mooresville Graded School District’s experiences integrating technology into K-12 education during the 2013 Summer Connection in Mooresville, N.C. I worked for two years as vice president of business development at Harcourt Assessment, but left that job to join Mooresville.

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Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance’ schools are the future of American high schools

The Hechinger Report

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. After giving birth to her son in 2011, Burgos dropped out of her old school when counselors told her that she didn’t have enough credits to pass ninth grade.

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

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. At 16, Kemish Rosales learned how to fix computers as an intern at Tech Exchange. He has worked there since graduating from nearby Fremont High School in 2013 and is now the Tech Hub coordinator? for the nonprofit.

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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

The Hechinger Report

For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”. “I And it opened Robins’ eyes.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”.