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OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience

The Hechinger Report

That left students powering through learning challenges by texting classmates for help, forming Zoom study groups and capitalizing on free internet resources to help clarify difficult material. Related: Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores. Los Angeles high school senior. Dr. Jill Grimes, M.D.,

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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In Toppenish School District in Washington State, serving Yakima County, however, the transfer of a student to online learning for 10 to 20 school days is used as a top-tier disciplinary sanction, according to its student handbook. Another study found that Latino students were more likely to receive disciplinary action than white students.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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. — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”. Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school.