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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. According to Tameka, staff visited her in Spring 2021 after receiving calls from the school complaining her children were not attending online classes. The social workers interviewed the children, inspected their home and looked for signs of neglect and abuse.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

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The confusion stems from the study design. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called. “We Going straight to college courses helped more students earn college credits in English but that didn’t help them get through college.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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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. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM.” Your stories. practices solving?algebra

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

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Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering, a school focused on STEM curriculum in Greenville, South Carolina. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

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The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The graduation rate remained steady, and even rose to 67 percent in 2021.

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

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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. An estimated 200,000 jobs for registered nurses are expected to open each year in the U.S.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

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In Denver, on the other hand, districtwide data shows that suspensions were down by 55 percent in fall 2021 compared with fall 2019, though 1,000 of Denver’s 92,000 students were suspended in the first four months of the school year. That’s higher than the district’s fall 2018 numbers and a slight drop from 2019.