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What School Leadership Can Learn From 2020

Edsurge

Truly 2020 was a difficult year for so many reasons. It has also forced school leaders to become more creative, outspoken and innovative in their advocacy and leadership—lessons they will take with them to help drive change in 2021. Here are some of my thoughts on what 2020 has taught us, and about what lies ahead.

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OPINION: If we don’t act quickly, the student loan default system could plunge more families into poverty

The Hechinger Report

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, the federal government paused student loan payments, interest and collections in March 2020 and recently extended that pause until May 2022. By reforming the student loan default system, the federal government will give struggling families a fresh start rather than pushing them into poverty.

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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

College Connect serves any interested student; however, its target population is the district’s most at-promise students, including young people experiencing homelessness and in the foster care system, English learners, and undocumented students. Thanks to the district’s efforts, connectivity in the community has reached 100 percent.

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Advocacy Group to DOJ: Cengage-McGraw Hill Merger Could Create a ‘Platform Monopoly’ in Education

Edsurge

An open-access advocacy group on Wednesday sent a formal filing to the U.S. Officials from Cengage and McGraw-Hill said in their statement Wednesday that they will work closely with the Department of Justice and expect the merger to be complete by 2020. Cengage officials issued a statement this week defending their payment practices.

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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

Edsurge

That means building a standalone community because, she says, it’s hard for students who don’t have homes to be themselves in the mainstream American school system. A 2020 report for the U.S. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy.

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Special education students need a whole child approach

eSchool News

In early 2020, 7.3 But once the pandemic set in and schools closed their doors, the elaborately precarious systems that have been constructed to meet the needs of these students collapsed. The predictability of our current situation is tragic.

Education 128
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It’s Time to Take College Student Hunger and Homelessness Seriously

Edsurge

Through advocacy on campuses and in communities and ongoing state and federal investment in the real cost of higher education—including housing, food and other supports—we can and should make a firm commitment to students who are doing everything they can to become economically self-sufficient. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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