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

Edsurge

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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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. In 2015, RAND Corporation found that in 62 schools using personalized learning strategies, students progressed faster than their peers.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. By the 2015-16 school year, the latest data available online , Louisiana retained 4 percent of its students, still roughly twice the 2.2 If that second attempt wasn’t successful, students couldn’t move on to fifth or ninth grade. percent national average.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. The department said the documents were “outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective.”. At least two dealt directly with the transition from high school to college or career.

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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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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. She became Carver’s first student to move from undocumented to documented status and to enroll in college. His family said that police had picked him up. Zelaya is now in her second year of college courses.

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