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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. ” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Online prekindergarten access and funds for school counselors among bills proposed in Mississippi this year

The Hechinger Report

Experts cautioned that online learning programs can lead to overuse of screens, which can impact behavior, sleep, and social-emotional development. The bill states that these districts have the greatest need due to high incidences of violence, a large number of low-income students and high dropout rates.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Her schools is teaching students to set goals and take charge of their learning.

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STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside

The Hechinger Report

When I was in elementary school and in middle school, I always knew that I wanted to be a composer. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. My school has a reputation, by being cast in a movie called “Fame,” of being a sort of an attempt to try and drive the arts forward.

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

The Hechinger Report

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

“Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.