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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. This time, she knew the family.

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

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Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. If you want to ensure that students don’t leave elementary school illiterate, hire a personal tutor for academically-struggling 4th graders. Retention is not a policy unknown.

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

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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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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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up.

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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. “I Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. They hadn’t seen that before.

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Personalized Learning: Mistakes, Moving Furniture and Making it Work

MindShift

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Making changes gradually.