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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.

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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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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

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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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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

The system fully implemented the program in the 2019-20 school year and reduced the number of developmental course sections it offered. Pigg is the associate dean of institutional research & academic advancement at Southern Union and was chair of the mathematics department in 2019. “It percent in 2019-2020 according to ACCS data.

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

The Hechinger Report

“It’s becoming blatantly apparent that the year they spent in remote learning did not allow them to mature properly,” said Thiebeau, who teaches biology and forensics in a room decorated with animal bones and a taxidermied bear head. When Travis-Curtis became principal in 2019, enrollment was plummeting. Then the pandemic arrived.

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How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever

The Hechinger Report

Rosamund Looney, who teaches first grade in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, said that because of the stresses of the pandemic and online learning, “we need to grant a lot of grace and accomodations.” Over the same period in 2019, the figure was 114. Credit: Rosamund Looney.