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

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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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Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

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This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. He was no longer enrolled, they said.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

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Students learn in different ways and have varying needs. That’s why innovative educators across the country are implementing creative programs to better meet those needs. Herndon, Virginia, July 2, 2018 —Education is not one size fits all.

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How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever

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That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Credit: Rosamund Looney.

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

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In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The campaign was able to bring in big donors like Twitter’s co-founder and then CEO Jack Dorsey, who pledged $10 million to help meet the goal. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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

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“It’s becoming blatantly apparent that the year they spent in remote learning did not allow them to mature properly,” said Thiebeau, who teaches biology and forensics in a room decorated with animal bones and a taxidermied bear head. Online learning was challenging for many students. Then the pandemic arrived.

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