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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

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Credit: Allen McEachern for The Hechinger Report Now there’s new scrutiny of how adjuncts’ pay and benefits affect not only them but also their students, who often go into debt to cover rising tuition. But it’s also not fair to the students who are relying on them to be focused on the classroom and to keep them going.”

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One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis

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Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. And the state’s community colleges, which depend on the same dwindling supply of learners, are reporting record numbers of applications for the fall. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. “I Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to ?microcredentials?

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Credit: Photo: Ronda Churchill for The Hechinger Report. Among lower-income adults, who have already been disproportionately affected, one in four say they have only enough savings to cover their expenses for three months if they’re laid off or get sick, the Pew Research Center reports. But is it better than being a dropout?

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. My favorite comparison I see a lot is about asking a fish to climb a tree. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

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The Starkville Foundation for Public Education, funded by donations from local residents, gave frequent grants to Starkville teachers to purchase new equipment and materials for their classrooms. And yet, the Justice Department has not asked the district to report on the performance of the minority students desegregation is supposed to help.

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Dropout Detective Offers Academic ‘Credit Scores’—But Is That a Good Thing?

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That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. Whereas credit scores are designed to prevent risky buyers from getting approved on loans, Dropout Detective is meant to improve student success and lower dropout rates.

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