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Report outlines long road ahead for Jackson Public Schools

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Photo:Liz Willen/ The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Kellogg Foundation is among the various funders of The Hechinger Report.). Subscribe today!

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

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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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College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025

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These urban college markets, such as San Diego, may diverge from their state’s or region’s trends. The latest 2017 birthrate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posts new lows, marking almost a decade of reduced fertility. In the red-colored states, the drop in students will exceed 15%.

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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 By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. Understanding Chronic Absenteeism The U.S.

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

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Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. The effort in Greenville is part of a growing national trend in which school districts partner with local industries to develop curriculum and expose students to specialized careers at a young age. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. “We It was engineering week at A.J.

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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). Coulson, New NAEP scores extend dismal trend in US Education productivity. billion annually. 2007 ([link].

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

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Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports. Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. He’d gone to high school in a small town outside Atlanta.

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