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

The Hechinger Report

“It’s becoming blatantly apparent that the year they spent in remote learning did not allow them to mature properly,” said Thiebeau, who teaches biology and forensics in a room decorated with animal bones and a taxidermied bear head. Online learning was challenging for many students. Then the pandemic arrived.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

“Students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it.” Research suggests that intensive tutoring is one of the most effective ways for kids to catch up on learning. Allison Socol, The Education Trust. But less frequent tutoring, such as having sessions once a week, was not.

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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

— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 2016. 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.

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

The Hechinger Report

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.