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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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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. Understanding Chronic Absenteeism The U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

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That F often transposed into poor work reports or lateral/downward movements in the company. University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 Journal of Neuroscience 37, 8549-8558 (2017). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, 2018). Random House, London, UK, 2018). billion annually.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. Enrollment in developmental math courses decreased from 19,849 in 2017-18 to 7,715 in 2019-20. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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Focusing on the Fifth Year to Help Students Graduate

MindShift

About 700 fifth-year students graduated from public high schools in Indiana in 2018, the latest year for which data is available. In 2018, the graduation rate at the school jumped by over 16 percentage points to 55% after nine students graduated in their fifth year. At most campuses, few students graduate in the fifth year.

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

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Since 2017, for example, students in Roscoe, Texas, a rural community of about 1,300 residents, have been able to earn associate degrees and receive college credit by taking career education courses in health care, veterinary services and agriculture through a program called P-TECH.

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‘It almost broke us’: Lawsuit accuses for-profit cosmetology college of withholding student financial aid

The Hechinger Report

The Iowa beauty school chain (which The Hechinger Report wrote about 15 months ago, in a story that also ran in The New York Times ) is accused in the new lawsuit of causing students serious financial hardship by withholding financial aid. “If It almost broke us,” Detmer, who graduated in 2017, said of her family. “If

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