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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Distance learning began March 23.

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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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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. Karolewics, president of Wallace State.

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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.”. And upon learning that as a member of the Say Yes operations committee he would be required to work closely with Philip Rumore, his longtime adversary and the head of the city’s teachers union, Radford remembers, “I didn’t see how this was going to work. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

The next school day and a just a few floors below, Miller is in the school’s biotechnology lab where students are learning the skills they would need for a job testing specimens for the presence of amalyse, the protein enzyme that breaks down starch into sugar. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools

EdNews Daily

It didn’t take me long to learn that if I wanted to succeed as an educator, I would have to learn on the job. I want to share what I have learned over time. What I have learned has come from personal experience – over time and by reading and listening to others in the field. The vast majority said they weren’t.

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

Wherever classrooms are open, there will likely be some form of social distancing and other hygiene measures in place that challenge traditional teaching and learning. Virtual learning will continue. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning.