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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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

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Data from the 2021 Healthy Minds Study shows 34 percent of college respondents struggling with anxiety disorder and 41 percent with depression — rates that have risen in recent years. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?. Yet it could take weeks to see someone.

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Community college students get double the support through unusual dual-teacher program

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I’m an assessment instructor,” Mosser said. From 2020 to 2021, the number of working RNs in the United States decreased by more than 100,000 — the highest drop in four decades. between now and 2031, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2021. She’s just a helping instructor.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

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Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. He said the fall 2021 semester of first-year calculus was the most difficult he’s had in his 50-year career. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It Erika Rich for Hechinger Report Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Their failure is my failure.”.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

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After implementing the combination of the tiered placement and co-requisites, the system reported a 43 percent decrease in students enrolled in developmental English and a 32 percent decrease in students enrolled in developmental Math. Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals.

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OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience

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As this spring’s high school seniors gear up for graduation, there’s a silver lining worth noting: The class of 2021 may be better prepared to take hold of their future than the classes before them. The post OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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How to help struggling young readers

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Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BRONX, N.Y. —

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