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How districts can proactively protect against school shootings

eSchool News

In 2022, Americans witnessed the horror of the s econd deadliest school shooting of all time, which resulted in the deaths of 19 students and two teachers. schools experienced some sort of active shooter hoax, tip, or related threat in 2022, and this is a conservative estimate based on limited public reporting at the state and county level.

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PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed down since 2004

The Hechinger Report

Fewer than half of them ever re-enrolled in college, according to a November 2022 report by SHEEO and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. As of February 2022, only about a third of the 47 percent of students who succeeded in transferring to another campus completed a degree or a credential.

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Ripple Effects, Leader in Social Emotional Learning, Announces New Chief Executive Officer John Ray-Keil

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NEW ORLEANS – June 27, 2022 – Today, Ripple Effects , a leader in digital social emotional learning (SEL), mental health and behavior supports, announced the appointment of John Ray-Keil as its new CEO. Ray-Keil succeeds co-founder, Alice Ray, who will become chair of the board.

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

eSchool News

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% About Ancora High School Ancora High School launched in 2022 to provide adult learners the opportunity to complete a high school diploma in a highly flexible, self-paced, completely online format.

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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

The Hechinger Report

Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order in April 2022 restricting how race and equity can be taught in the classroom, Tilsen-Brave Heart decided to enroll her daughter at Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, a newly opened private school in Rapid City. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. South Dakota Gov.

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

Edsurge

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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

The Hechinger Report

Deishangelxa was 10 when schools shut again in September 2022 — this time for two weeks. take (the National Assessment for Educational Progress, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card), about a third of fourth graders and a quarter of eighth graders on the mainland were considered “proficient” in 2022. states averaged $61,730.