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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

The director of student support services for Long Beach Unified School District wanted to reduce the number of local students who were chronically absent, a term that refers to those who miss 15 or more school days of the academic year. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. But it has proven elusive.

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Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

The Hechinger Report

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. The current desegregation order, issued in March 2016, mandated a Biracial Advisory Committee to oversee implementation of the desegregation plan. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

I would have been a dropout.”. Referring to the in-school mental health counselor who is on site each day through a Say Yes partnership, Galenski noted, “I have, over the years, made many referrals for kids to see her on a weekly basis. I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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

The Hechinger Report

Still, districts nationwide are now placing students in online learning in response to misbehavior, in a process referred to in certain circles as “virtualization.” In the 2015-2016 school year, Black students lost 103 days of learning per 100 students, 82 more days than their white peers. Louis, in the spring of 2022.

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. The number edged back up in 2016-17 to 682 incidents.).