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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

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He has an office, access to professional training and government-provided health insurance. Credit: Allen McEachern for The Hechinger Report Now there’s new scrutiny of how adjuncts’ pay and benefits affect not only them but also their students, who often go into debt to cover rising tuition.

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

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There’s no shortage of peer support programs to evaluate, and tools used to deploy them are evolving to become more professional and accessible in an increasingly digital world. Virtual offerings like these could play a key role in increasing access, which is particularly helpful to youth who have limited resources.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

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According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. While technology doesn’t aim to substitute teachers, it can facilitate their work and ensure that each student gets access to customized educational content and assessment methods to provide the best possible learning outcomes. . Online games and assessments.

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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

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Photo: Erin Einhorn for The Hechinger Report. Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. What happens to the education of these young women?

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

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Prior to Covid-19, Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice, surveying nearly 167,000 students at 227 institutions, found 39 percent of participants had been food insecure in the previous 30 days, and the numbers are now worse.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

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When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Those surveys didn’t get it exactly right. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. We need to change that.”.