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

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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 At the end of our data collection in the fall of 2020, their degree completion – the elementary algebra group and the stats group – they’re not that different,” said Douglas.

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from transfer schools

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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., I was curious to learn what advocates of alternative schools say we should do to help them. (Most finish far sooner.)

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

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This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention.

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

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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.

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

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But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We

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

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Over months of reporting, the AP learned of students and families avoiding school for a range of reasons. During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school. I can’t learn that way,” he said in Spanish.

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

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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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