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Momentum builds for helping students adapt to college by nixing freshman grades

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Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. And “if the student came in and struggled to get a C-plus, they may have learned a lot.”.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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This has been a goal of Simon’s since she joined Long Beach Unified in fall 2013. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. But it has proven elusive. Her district’s chronic absenteeism rates have actually increased, from 13.3

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

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Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. Leave this field empty if you're human: Vermont has one of the oldest populations in the United States and, the Vermont State Data Center reports, is now tied with Connecticut for the lowest birth rate in the nation. Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. RANDOLPH, Vt.

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Proficiency and NAEP scores: Let’s stop talking about trivial distinctions and focus on ending inequality instead

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It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. As we read NAEP’s latest report, we should focus on what truly matters. Math scores declined one point between 2013 and 2015.

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How success coaches anticipate and tackle college students’ challenges

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About half of Dallas College’s students are first-generation; a little more than 20 percent are parents; and about 22 percent are adult learners who are at least 25 with a full-time job,according to self-reported responses and data from a fall 2022 survey. Sign up for Hechinger’s higher education newsletter.

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Spreading First Aid for Teens’ Mental Health by Training Adults to Help

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Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. She also learned how to assess for suicide risk by asking questions like, “Are you having thoughts of hurting yourself?” The full-day course taught her several First Aid skills, including how to recognize the signs of a panic attack, psychosis and PTSD.

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

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Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.