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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. Then, they made way for the next group of students, who were eager to drop their own bag from the staircase in hope of a different result. The third graders at A.J. Justin Middaugh, an engineer from Michelin, watches as students at A.J.

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Celebrating Math Education With A Taste Of Math

MIND Research Institute

Champion of Education Award: Lisa Gonzales-Solomon, Principal, Madison Elementary. Hyundai Motor America’s partnership with MIND Research Institute and JiJi started in 2011 in Fountain Valley when Hyundai provided funding to two elementary schools to adopt MIND’s ST Math program.

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from transfer schools

The Hechinger Report

Normally, I would read a self-serving report by a consulting group and file it away. Another transfer school dropout described becoming a manager at a retail store. And even the Eskolta report found that one group of overage students – 16-year-old ninth graders – might not be served well at transfer schools.

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The pandemic knocked many Native students off the college track

The Hechinger Report

Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. racial group. Credit: Andi Murphy for The Hechinger Report. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, Newcomb staff started calling students to check on their wellbeing. “It

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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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. Dallas’ changes are part of a wider movement away from exclusionary discipline due in part to its disproportionate impact on some groups of students, including Native American students and students with disabilities along with Black students.