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A school year like no other: The class of 2021 played ‘the hand we were dealt’

The Hechinger Report

million teenagers were set to graduate from high school in spring 2021. That’s the entity that we would be better off without,” Jaden said in January 2021. At her desk, sitting among Harry Potter books and souvenirs from previous travels with her parents, Mana created a balance sheet to account for her final year of high school.

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

The Hechinger Report

She’d noticed that Nevaeh was missing a grade in her online grade book for a major science project that the teen said she had completed. More recently, the data tracking firm Burbio identified 36 districts that are using pandemic relief funds to start hubs or hub-like learning centers. Navarro began working with Jason in May 2021.

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

The Hechinger Report

Deishangelxa, 9 years old at the time, struggled with virtual learning and fell far behind. In August 2021, after successive waves of infection saw schools open and close, in-person schooling finally resumed for students on the island, but not for long. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students.

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Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. “ Do Medical Schools Still Need Books? ” asks Edsurge. Trillion in 2018.”

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

The Hechinger Report

Her tenure at Collins has overlapped with two developments that have contributed to a drop in paddling incidents: the state legislature’s 2019 partial ban on corporal punishment — of students with disabilities — and a global pandemic that interfered with in-person learning. keeps a paddle used in the county’s schools.