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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Luckily for Nyakora — and the patient, Operation’s “Cavity Sam” —the surgery is only a game, part of a stress-management workshop for freshmen and sophomores in a program for underrepresented students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The man’s bright red nose lights up, and a buzzer sounds. Nyakora jumps, and his friends laugh.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

I would have been a dropout.”. At the outset a survey was conducted to assess the needs of schools, families and communities. 1 request wasn’t about academics but access to mental health services. And 52 of the district’s 59 buildings provide in-school access to mental health services. And I do that with [Stubbe].

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs. Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals.

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

But access to home support is arguably even more important. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks. ” 2. .

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. There are gifted dropouts. Renzulli’s summer workshops for educators have trained more than 35,000 teachers over 40 years , including numerous Olmsted staff.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”). It’s not uncommon for schools to outsource professional development, but the decision to transform a traditional classroom into a fully personalized, tech-heavy setting demands more than the odd skills workshop.

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

The Hechinger Report

The federal share of Medicaid funding, for example, is capped at 55 percent (if Puerto Rico were a state, it could receive 83 percent), residents are denied certain disability benefits and there are restrictions on access to other funding, such as the child tax credit. Child poverty is widespread: In the 50 U.S.