Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Fill the balloons that are your lungs, the professor says, then empty them completely. They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She dreamed of attending a historically black school out of state, maybe Spelman College or Clark Atlanta University.1 Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. 1 Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Executive Director Amanda Johnson greets students as they arrive for school. The former church youth-group multipurpose room had become a shrine to academic achievement, the stained-glass window overshadowed by bold purple banners listing the students’ future college graduation years, the school’s values and the slogan “#RUReady.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

When sports practices were abruptly canceled at his school on March 12, 2020, Michael Liao, then 17, started to worry how much the pandemic would affect his school – and particularly his upcoming theater performance. All three planned to graduate at the end of the 2020-21 school year. By mid-April, the world had changed.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Not long ago, while visiting Israel, I had the opportunity to sit in on a fourth grade class at a progressive school in that country’s North District. By contrast, learning math should be much easier. One reason I believe math is challenging for so many young people, is because it is so rarely spoken. by Robert Sun.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. We talk about our adult learners as workers who go to school rather than students who work.” Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

After Philadelphia schools closed in March for the coronavirus, he’d dutifully logged in each morning to online classes on the laggy computer his mother got for him years earlier. Friends sent him texts during online class, distracting him. I don’t want to be online, I want to be in normal class. “I It was around 11 a.m.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” School districts rely on Medicaid, the federal health care program for the poor, to provide costly services to millions of students with disabilities across the country. For nearly 30 years, Medicaid has helped school systems cover costs for special education services and equipment, from physical therapists to feeding tubes.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.). The Consortium for School Networking, CoSN, has taken up the mantle for the K-12 version. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Good for you. But that’s not my job. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade. with Pigeons. The Horizon Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

It was two weeks until the Texas Education Agency, where he’s a deputy commissioner, would remove Houston’s elected school board from their jobs. You guys know your communities. You guys have spent, each of you, many years deeply engaging with your communities, and that is incredibly valuable,” he said.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

The Naples Daily News on a lawsuit by the SPLC over schools blocking immigrant students from attending : “This teen is one of about 200 immigrant students who have been excluded from Collier County high schools.” Via Education Week : “This Is What Hundreds of School Closures in Puerto Rico Looks Like.”

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