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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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JULY 29, 2020

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

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MARCH 17, 2022

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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APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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

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JANUARY 20, 2022

That’s higher than the district’s fall 2018 numbers and a slight drop from 2019. In Denver, on the other hand, districtwide data shows that suspensions were down by 55 percent in fall 2021 compared with fall 2019, though 1,000 of Denver’s 92,000 students were suspended in the first four months of the school year.

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How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Over the same period in 2019, the figure was 114.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

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MAY 19, 2022

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. When Travis-Curtis became principal in 2019, enrollment was plummeting.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. Black, Latino and Indigenous groups are often left out. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

There is no going back to the schools of 2019, and the families can’t go back to the way they were either. Stacey has worked in the preK-12 education world for 20 years, spending time on school management and working for education associations including the AAP PreK-12 Learning Group.

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As Harlem Children’s Zone moves to export its model nationwide, Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods offer cautionary tales

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

To foster these kinds of outcomes in other cities, Owusu-Kesse enticed Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone’s founder and former CEO, out of semi-retirement to lead the initiative, which Owusu-Kesse sees as “a national hub” for local groups. Related: Can a successful model from Harlem deliver ‘Promise’ to rural schools in Mississippi?

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JUNE 18, 2020

There is no one answer for what the coming school year will look like, but it won’t resemble the fall of 2019. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. Future outbreaks will make for unpredictable waves of closures. Take education outdoors.

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A school year like no other: The class of 2021 played ‘the hand we were dealt’

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

More than a year into the pandemic, the Children’s Hospital Colorado eventually declared a pediatric mental health state of emergency , as youth behavioral visits to the medical system’s emergency rooms increased more than 70 percent over early 2019. We’re all a group of misfits,” he said. “I I wish I had joined theater sooner.”.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. BURIEN, Wash. —

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

And pregnancy is more common among Hispanic teens than among teens in any other racial or ethnic group, except American Indian and Alaska Native teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Related: ‘We want a kid you don’t have any idea what to do with’. “The

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Still, between October 2018 and September 2019 more than 75,000 unaccompanied minors — children who arrived in the U.S. In 2019, it ranked fourth of all counties in the U.S. Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic.

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Proposed bill to ban suspensions for attendance violations falls short in Arizona

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Maybe they have to watch younger siblings at home, or there’s something happening at school — there’s a bullying issue or they’re particularly stressed out about one of their classes,” Terech, a former elementary school teacher, told lawmakers at a House Education Committee hearing this year. “If a student is suspended, they are absent.”

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. I signed the paper.”.

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

When her classes were assigned group projects, no one wanted her in their group. In 2019, the Trump administration prohibited providers in the program from referring patients for abortion except in rare cases, leading almost 1,000 clinics to leave the program. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report.

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