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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

If correct, this means that one out of every three public school children was chronically absent during the second full school year of the pandemic, when most children were learning in person and should have been catching up from the disrupted year of 2020 and the first half of 2021. Before the pandemic, only about 16 percent of U.S.

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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

Edsurge

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

The Delaware Department of Education has added to their 17 early literacy micro-credentials that were launched in 2020 with 12 new micro-credentials to support early literacy throughout the state.*. Delaware Department of Education. Institute for Student Achievement (ISA). National Association for Gifted Children.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020. It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In

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Getting More Students Through — Not Just To — College

Edsurge

percent for students who started in fall 2014, according to a 2020 report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The measure aims to fix a longstanding problem in American higher education: Many more people start college than finish on time, within six years—or ever. The national six-year college completion rate was 60.1

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How Did Portland Pull Off a Universal Pre-K Victory? We Started with the Fundamentals

Edsurge

After nearly a decade of organizing, advocacy, planning and hand-wringing, we passed a Preschool for All initiative. Back to Basics Researchers at Dialogues in Action (DIA), a Portland-based research and strategy firm, interviewed 44 people who were engaged in Multnomah’s Preschool for All effort. We did get the balance right.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

Content is strong throughout CoSN2020 with sessions ranging from artificial intelligence in education, digital equity strategies, cybersecurity risks, universal design for learning, interoperability and much more. . In preparation for CoSN2020, we plan to release a number of new resources , including: 2019-2020 IT Leadership Survey results.