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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

eSchool News

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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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. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019. The number of new students is down 23 percent.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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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. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. It is learning support at exactly the right time you need it to be successful,” said Vicki P. It helped out a lot.”.

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

The Hechinger Report

higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ? The Merit Myth” describes how higher education gives lip service to the promise of social mobility, while remaining ever more segregated by class and race. colleges favor the rich. The answer is a little of both, Carnevale explained.

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How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever

The Hechinger Report

Few have received much guidance from administrators on how to handle discipline issues that arise in remote learning and in school buildings where education has been reshaped by new health and safety guidelines. For teachers around the country, school discipline during the pandemic has been confounding. Credit: Rosamund Looney.