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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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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

That evolution has sped up since 2001, when the state introduced a requirement that students pass a statewide assessment (known as the MCAS) to earn a high school diploma. Bilton had studied the topic as part of his graduate work at Salem State University, and later attended an educators’ workshop in Washington at the U.S.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

There are gifted dropouts. Renzulli’s summer workshops for educators have trained more than 35,000 teachers over 40 years , including numerous Olmsted staff. Then there’s the question of personality, of what a gifted person is like. Black hat,” Valenti-Barone instructed them, “add a few more details.”.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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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. On the math test that children all over the U.S.