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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Then, they made way for the next group of students, who were eager to drop their own bag from the staircase in hope of a different result. The third graders at A.J. Justin Middaugh, an engineer from Michelin, watches as students at A.J.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

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An experimental psychologist by training, Logue designed an experiment. Researchers then compared what happened to these stats students with a similar group of almost 300 students who were sent to remedial algebra, the traditional first step for students who fail the algebra subtest. Department of Education.

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OPINION: Post-pandemic, let’s develop true education-to-workforce pathways to secure a better future

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The pandemic disrupted the “when I grow up” dreams of too many students, leaving fewer prepared for education and training after high school. Pathways are a way of connecting the dots among K-12, higher education and career training in a smooth continuum, rather than treating them as three separate systems.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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Members of the Long Beach Unified School District “All In” team conduct training on building a culture of attendance and brainstorming barriers to entry (Credit: Erin Simon). In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from transfer schools

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But an April 2022 report by Eskolta School Research and Design, a nonprofit consultancy that provides training and services to alternative schools in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., Normally, I would read a self-serving report by a consulting group and file it away. Their graduation rates were higher at traditional high schools.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

The Hechinger Report

She said schools could have invested in staff training, hired more counselors and generally shifted toward a more trauma-informed, restorative approach to serving students. Before the pandemic, she trained educators working with children who live in violent communities. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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

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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. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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