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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions. We’ve been training them now for five weeks,” she said at the time.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

As manufacturing jobs are replaced by skilled-service positions, Latinx who lack training beyond high school will be increasingly stuck in low-wage and unstable jobs; the resulting lack of skilled workers could depress annual U.S. household incomes by 5 percent by 2060, according to one analysis. The bad news? They’re still behind.

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

The Hechinger Report

” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. The concept behind the program is recruiting, training and certifying minority men to become elementary school teachers in South Carolina.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Analysis from Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein : “‘Alternative Pathways:’ How to Rethink Vocational Education.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Digital Promise Reimagine Teacher Tech Training with New National Program.”

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

According to a Hechinger analysis, 150 schools in eight states used corporal punishment on 20 percent or more of their students that year. She is expanding the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports program and has brought in new grant money to support teacher training. Most of those schools — 69 — were in Mississippi.