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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

For example, Alabama reported that more than 15 percent of its students were chronically absent in the three years before the pandemic, but in 2020-21, the state reported that its attendance rates had dramatically improved with only 11 percent of its students chronically absent. (A I don’t think so,” said Chang.

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Can you take algebra in eighth grade? In many cases, the answer is no

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principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. The report also details the extent to which students are separated based on their perceived math abilities, starting as young as elementary school. Are a lot of students of color, for example, in the lower track?

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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

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For example: The school has on-campus showers, food pantries, licensed clinicians and social programs. But that study did not track academic outcomes or chronic absence rates. Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools.

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

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It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district.

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Third graders work through a reading assignment at Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Nashville. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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Education Has Been Hammering the Wrong Nail. We Have to Focus on the Early Years.

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Consider that the annual cost of K-12 special education is nearly three times that of “general education”: $26,000 vs. $9,000 per student in California, for example. Moreover, children who are expelled in preschool or early elementary are 10 times more likely to be incarcerated. Relationships are linked to better academic outcomes.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

The Hechinger Report

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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