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Tuesday, May 19 Events - The Learning Revolution Online Daily Education Conference #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Welcome to the Tuesday, May 19th edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. with Vinayadhar Raju, ZPHS Jangapally 1:00 PM - Helping Students Graduate: Tools & Strategies to Lower the Number of School Dropouts & Raise Graduation Rates with Franklin P. The day's sessions are below.

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Opinion: Here’s how to make sure low-income high school graduates don’t put off college indefinitely

The Hechinger Report

Enrollment for low-income high school grads dropped 29 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020, compared with a 17 percent decline for students from more affluent families. Colgate-Palmolive recently held a similar series of events for 1,800 high school students.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I Americans and Mississippians and anyone with common sense in the year 2020 understands broadband is as important to modern life as electricity is.”

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

She was 8 in January 2020, when earthquakes rocked the island, closing her school for three months while engineers inspected its physical structures to make sure they were safe for students to return. Like more than 260 other schools across Puerto Rico with low enrollment, it was closed permanently as part of wider cost cutting measures.

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

The Hechinger Report

After that event, she completely just spiraled downward, couldn’t focus, and in class was often tearful.” Beth Hood, a social worker at High Point High School in Prince George’s County, says sometimes a child can seem OK but then something will trigger a flashback.

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

The Hechinger Report

Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020. Longitudinal studies of corporal punishment in schools internationally, meanwhile, have found the practice is correlated with lower math scores , lower motivation and diminished academic progress , along with increased absenteeism and dropout rates.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” Via the press release : “ Amazon Announces More Than 10,000 Employee Participants in Career Choice and Expects to Reach 20,000 Participants by 2020.” ” Contests and Awards.