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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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OPINION: Lonely, left out and isolated post-pandemic, our college students need personal attention

The Hechinger Report

Surgeon General issued an advisory about the perils of social media for young people, we knew about its negative effect on the mental well-being of young women. Mary Dana Hinton became the 13th president of Hollins University in Virginia in 2020 and is president emerita of the College of Saint Benedict. Long before the U.S.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

To those already burdened by the demands of social media and fears about how to succeed in the world, Covid piled on. They have faced restrictions on the free-form socializing that builds acquaintanceships and a sense of belonging. And students clearly wanted help; use of campus counseling rose 23 percent from 2019 to 2020.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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Creativity, complex problem-solving and coordinating with others are among skills that will become increasingly important for workers to develop by 2020, according to the World Economic Forum. Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

There has been a significant and steady drop nationwide in the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college in the fall after they finish high school — from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, the most recent year for which the figure is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

The Hechinger Report

In July, she gathered input from around 150 students in person and on social media. A majority of students experienced a decrease in both the manageability and meaningfulness of their schoolwork during remote learning in spring 2020, the survey found. Kim is one of three student representatives on the county school board.

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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

The Hechinger Report

These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020. She and her colleagues hope to reach every senior by email, phone or social media.

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