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These Youth Are Transforming the Trauma of Poverty With Raw, Original Storytelling

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Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective is a 501c3 organization that works to document St. Youth also earn money through performance, documentation and administrative work with the Collective. Visual artists document performers and produce photographs and videos that carry the messaging out online long after the PA is packed up.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

The Hechinger Report

However, there is not much research on the life outcomes of students with disabilities who attain high school diplomas versus those who get alternative exit documents. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

So a social worker called his home on a December morning in 2015 when he didn’t come to school. To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college. His family said that police had picked him up. Zelaya is now in her second year of college courses.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. Related: This program is proven to help moms and babies — so why aren’t we investing in it more ?

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. But even free legal aid can be difficult for already-vulnerable families to access.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. He’s missing out on how to document, experiment, prove your theory — that’s important stuff if you want to go into sciences,” she said.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Nearly two decades ago, the reporter Todd Oppenheimer documented the aggressive rise of emerging Silicon Valley technologies — personal computers and the Internet — in the nation’s public schools. She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”). There are no exceptions to this.”