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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. Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

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The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Students are inundated with information and visual stimulation at a rapid pace, and their stamina for reading lengthy pieces of text needs to be cultivated. What a summer.

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

The Hechinger Report

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Sharing information helped them develop closer relationships with students and better tailor their lessons. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.”

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

Early this past December, the state released guidance to explain how to institute alternatives to retention in fourth grade, to comply with a resolution passed by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in October. Rory Williams stands in the library at George Washington Carver High School.

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Personalized Learning: Mistakes, Moving Furniture and Making it Work

MindShift

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Sharing information helped them develop closer relationships with students and better tailor their lessons. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.”

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. And the school’s dean of students called her great-grandmother, her legal guardian, to inform her about Kailani’s disappearance from school. She teaches dance to elementary school kids now. After that, Kailani stopped attending math. on Tuesday, Jan.

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