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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone. About the Author.

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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. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

The median household income in Oktibbeha County for black residents is $21,795 annually while the median income for white households is almost double, at $41,501, according to American Community Survey 2014 estimates. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. I struggled at first just to keep up.”.

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The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines. It would be too easy to forget to write something down in the first place, or he might forget to check his planner, making the whole effort pointless. There would be times that I would forget I even had an assignment,” he said.

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OPINION: We ignore middle school students at our own peril

The Hechinger Report

The number of middle school students who are not in an after-school program, but whose parents would enroll them if a program were available, has grown from 4 million in 2014 to nearly 5 million today. million in 2014. The pandemic is increasing that need, but not enough programs are available.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.