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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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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. Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

But, when he asked veteran teachers what tools they had recently found most helpful, “a lot of them talked about the personalized-learning training they received from Highlander,” he recalled. Rubin, who has a skateboarder’s gait and nonchalant air, was raised in Michigan by unionized educators, and he aspired, early on, to follow their lead.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

take (the National Assessment for Educational Progress, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card), about a third of fourth graders and a quarter of eighth graders on the mainland were considered “proficient” in 2022. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. We are making a clarion call for help.”