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More students are dropping out of college during Covid — and it could get worse

The Hechinger Report

When in-person classes there started this past fall, she was glad to be back in the classroom and finally experiencing some real college life. The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 Castro-Chavez took the spring semester off and focused on her trucking company job.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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As the disruptions and changes continue to unfold during 2021, he recommends using an adaptive system design to change the structures and collective mindsets within school districts. Conner also identified three levels of innovation that need to occur, starting with the application of efficiency logic to smaller systems like classroom design.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers. . Greenville County Schools has begun partnering with companies in the area, such as BMW and Michelin, to develop courses in mechatronics and automotive research.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Nathan Levenson, former CEO at a crane-manufacturing company. Your stories.

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How to help struggling young readers

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 but once you get to the classroom, you realize there’s no way this is going to cover everything,” she said.

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EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us

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In my first year of teaching, I was blessed to have a SMART board in my classroom. At least that was the case for a few months before a screw fell from the ceiling and landed in the middle of my classroom. The company promised to revolutionize how students were taught, except without teachers.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Both Obimma and VonSeggen tutored remotely, but some tutors have come back into the classroom along with the students. Your stories.

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