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Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ High School Dropout.

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While asking him to leave school, the principal told Anthony that he’d be better off getting his GED and learning a trade. In 2016 he was named Teacher of the Year for Rowan Salisbury Schools, and in 2017 he was named North Carolina’s Southwest Teacher of the Year. Today, Anthony is an award-winning educator.

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

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So, even though incidents of bullying remained steady, in the 2016-2017 school year, there was a 3.5 In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments.

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Research found that a $3.5 TULSA, Okla. —

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

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Our innate capacity to learn, to think, to create, and adapt endowed us with the evolutionary advantages necessary to become one of the most successful organisms on the planet. If you’re a trainer, you fight this process every time you engage a new hire, every time you learn a skill yourself, and every time you teach your child something new.

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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 Distance learning began March 23. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. In addition to causing learning gaps, absenteeism also has budget implications.

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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

The Hechinger Report

In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5 percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. In 2021, New Mexico had the fourth-lowest per capita income ; many of my students came from low-income families where they were encouraged to earn and not to learn.

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

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As the nation grapples with the profound effects these challenges have on school communities, the term “ learning loss ” has made its way into the spotlight. This term is commonly used in stories detailing what children across America lost during remote learning. That is not easily replaced.

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