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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Monica Williams.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

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Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. Generally, universities are doing very well financially, so they don’t feel from the data that their world is going to collapse. In this case however technology, and the need to adapt to it, is a part of the problem. Read more: Will AI replace teachers?

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. In addition to causing learning gaps, absenteeism also has budget implications. Research shows that attendance is key to academic success, so preventing absenteeism is critical.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Jen Bender, the data tech lead at Castlemont High School, gives a new student her #OaklandUndivided Chromebook and hot spot in May 2021. In August 2020, they launched a “Tech Check” survey to collect that data.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

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.) – for implementing full-time, statewide virtual school opportunities to provide students with rigorous online courses in a learning model that meets their individual needs.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. One tutor, Kingsley Esezobor, 38, is a graduate student in computational data science and engineering at North Carolina A&T State University.

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