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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. Simon was confident that her team’s efforts would help.

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STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” When I was in elementary school and in middle school, I always knew that I wanted to be a composer. That’s the problem with our education system now, that mistakes are the worst things you can make. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.

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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. Researchers projected estimates for the system based on the percentage of students affected in Compton, Lake Tahoe and Peralta Community College Districts.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: February 5, 2018. ” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. And I think sometimes that when we see the final product of a school, or a teacher, or a school system that looks really good and has been done really well, it feels insurmountable… Vicki: It does.

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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. During the 2018-19 school year, the last one uninterrupted by the pandemic, it logged 2,422 — a 61 percent drop. At that pace, Sarikey said the district will probably have more suspensions this year than it did pre-pandemic.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. Then, as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Duncan decided to close three low-performing elementary schools. Department of Education in 1980.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

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