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Supporting Educational Recovery with Community and Family Engagement

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Needs assessments are used to identify key issues and then match service recipients with local partners, and the assessments also help coordinators develop implementation plans designed to facilitate and optimize the delivery of services. In addition, the students receive similar books to read on their own. Join the Community.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. And many educators, both in high school and college, had trouble accurately assessing their students’ progress.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

Then the newly hired principal, Faith Mabe, heard about a new strategy for helping students. The new strategy aimed to alleviate the social and emotional needs of students. In the face of such challenges, everyone — including Mabe — was skeptical that a social-emotional learning strategy could help. “I

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Twenty-one and in high school

The Hechinger Report

While other schools adopt different strategies to keep students in class, Bronx Arena, in the Bronx borough of New York City, is betting on close relationships and a personalized academic program to get the job done. As students work on their laptops in the common area, teachers come around to work one-on-one with them. I’m an adult.”.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop.

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Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads

The Hechinger Report

One of the two students sharing a laptop in the echoing brick atrium of the chemistry building at the University of Michigan is white, a freshman from a rice-growing parish in Louisiana; the other, black, a senior and a native of Detroit. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Department of Education reports.

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