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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

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A growing problem in American classrooms is that teachers don’t resemble the students they teach. Chart from the website of the National Center for Education Statistics. Condition of Education. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Eighty percent of the nation’s 3.8 Retrieved from [link].

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

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But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. Tameka’s children — all four of them — have been home ever since.

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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

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percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. In 2021, New Mexico had the fourth-lowest per capita income ; many of my students came from low-income families where they were encouraged to earn and not to learn. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.

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

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One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers. . Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens.

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

The Hechinger Report

From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. The standards for online learning during her junior year weren’t just lower than they had been in the classroom, she said, “the standards weren’t even there at all.”. “It This story also appeared in USA Today.

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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. Thousands of other students around the country are leaving college — some because of mental health issues, others for financial or family reasons – and educators worry that many have left for good.

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