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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Simon was confident that her team’s efforts would help.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

The Hechinger Report

That’s higher than the district’s fall 2018 numbers and a slight drop from 2019. In 2017 it banned suspensions for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. During the 2018-19 school year, the last one uninterrupted by the pandemic, it logged 2,422 — a 61 percent drop. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: February 5, 2018. ” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. h ttps://spacesforlearning.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/the-phygitals-have-arrived%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aa-generation-for-this-century/. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here.

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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. That’s how it was conceived. It was meant to be a school that was both very good academically and that supported the arts.

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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Proof Points.