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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

Edsurge

As a veteran educator with over 20 years in the classroom, I’ve seen the consequences of teacher turnover. Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance.

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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 Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. But it has proven elusive.

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Spreading First Aid for Teens’ Mental Health by Training Adults to Help

MindShift

When kids struggle, their emotional problems often unfold in the classroom, affecting their ability to concentrate and straining interactions with teachers and peers. Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. — MentalHealthFirstAid (@MHFirstAidUSA) August 16, 2017.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. “If I felt like I needed mirrors in the classroom.”.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

Edsurge

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom. What offers a wealth of literary resources?

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When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk

The Hechinger Report

Miles Hooper, the 26-year-old manager of Vermont’s largest goat farm, remembers what it’s like to be 16 and not want to be in a classroom. Monitoring rigor in a classroom isn’t that complicated; maintaining it across multiple worksites is trickier. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs. RANDOLPH, Vt.

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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.” Until 2017, New Orleans high schools had no internal options to help students who fell so far behind a conventional diploma seemed impossible. “My My grades were perfect.

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