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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5 percent statewide dropout rate, according to 2020-21 Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education data, and special needs students fare particularly well at voc-tech schools. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone. In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Prior Reading in English Classes : Students who have previously read certain books or authors can bring deeper insights into discussions and analyses in English classes, especially when comparing themes or writing styles.

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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

Dangerously Irrelevant

In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success. Significantly higher dropout rates. Grade-level retention was one of only five factors that negatively impacts student achievement.

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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

Edsurge

This allows those teachers connected to a particular book or unit the freedom to teach something they love while also sticking to the competency-based model. When James Smith became principal at Snowy Peaks three years ago, the school was a dropout prevention program on turnaround status. Roots Elementary School in Denver, Colo.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. The little girl should be in second grade, learning to master chapter books, spell, and add and subtract numbers up to 100. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten. He was no longer enrolled, they said.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

The chapter of his book devoted to gun violence and gun control is particularly compelling. Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school.

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