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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Just eight states provided both comparable educational and comparable vocational services. Once they start, they really want to keep going.”.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year.

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OPINION: This high-poverty district learned to think differently about teaching and learning

The Hechinger Report

By 2016, the high-poverty school district had turned around. To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. Opportunities for online learning.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom.

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

The Hechinger Report

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Student Voices. What do kids really think about school?

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'Lost in the Cracks' Alabama District Brings Personalized Learning to Incarcerated Youth

Edsurge

We can channel that money, instead of building new jails and prisons, to educating the children that are in those jails and are not being served. In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances.

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