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How districts can proactively protect against school shootings

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Key points: Students and educators report feeling increasingly unsafe in their schools A school safety plan should include both reactive and proactive measures See related article: 4 considerations for school safety solutions The U.S. continues to grapple with its gun-related violence problem as new shootings make headlines every day.

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Dropout Report Elementary Study

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

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

Industry

Industry Elementary Education Robotics

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

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). adults who have student loans and no degree. It is a serious hardship for the students.”.

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Kaplan Dropout Analysis Report

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

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. Department of Education. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.

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Study Course Dropout Data

PROOF POINTS: Lessons from transfer schools

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

But an April 2022 report by Eskolta School Research and Design, a nonprofit consultancy that provides training and services to alternative schools in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., argues that New York’s transfer schools are doing a much better job at educating struggling students than traditional schools.

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Dropout Report Data Analysis

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

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. But she should act fast, the social worker urged, or the department might have to take action against her for “educational neglect.” But the Atlanta metro area seems to be a hotbed, despite the policies’ disruption of children’s educations.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary

Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth? Experts say it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Vivian, a volunteer at Teen Link, dons a headset to take a call Wednesday, June 22, 2022. The pilot program trains 11th and 12th grade students to do basic interventions — helping with schoolwork planning and navigating new social dynamics — to reduce the risk of dropouts. Credit: Dean Rutz/The Seattle Times. Read the series.

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Accessibility Training Dropout Survey

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data

Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She also didn’t allow Kailani to use her headphones while working independently in class, something permitted in her special education plan to help her focus, according to Kailani. Gone is the urgency to find the students who left — those eligible for free public education but who are not receiving any schooling at all.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops

PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. The paper on afterschool instruction, “Does Remedial Education at Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Political whims in education are universal. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers.

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Dropout Study Groups Report

Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. Four years later, Black male teachers still made up less than 3 percent of teachers in the state.

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Education Elementary Data Dropout

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

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Tilsen-Brave Heart worried that her 5-year-old daughter, Pia, would be exposed to even fewer lessons taught through a cultural lens than her older siblings had been, robbing her of an educational experience that would foster a sense of belonging and self-identity. “I 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. South Dakota Gov.

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Policies Report Dropout Study

Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Experts point to a confluence of factors for this, including poverty, culture, trauma and a lack of comprehensive sexual health education. “My Programs that help teenage mothers stay in school can make a big difference to the education and life outcomes for both the adolescents and their babies. She motivates me a lot.”

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Kaplan Report Policies Laptops

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

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

Elementary

Elementary Report Dropout System

Proposed bill to ban suspensions for attendance violations falls short in Arizona

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Being an educator in the field, you often see that students are not coming to school for a variety of reasons. According to data from the Arizona Department of Education, 14 percent of K-12 students were chronically absent in 2019. departments of Justice and Education highlighted as particularly concerning.

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Elementary Report Dropout Data

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How districts can proactively protect against school shootings

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

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

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

PROOF POINTS: Lessons from transfer schools

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

Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth? Experts say it’s complicated

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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

Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

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

Proposed bill to ban suspensions for attendance violations falls short in Arizona

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