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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school. Skills gap.

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

The Hechinger Report

Pathways efforts in places like these are leading to vibrant career options that provide economic opportunity and upward mobility for more students. This story about education-to-workforce pathways was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

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Research illuminates its impact: Elementary school students who miss 10% of school show weaker social skills development, lower reading ability, and higher grade-retention rates. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Almost all took action as a result.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. Each time a door opens, cigarette smoke drifts in from the mobile home his family shares next door. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. Like elementary and middle school home visits, high school home visits are all about relationship building. HEMPHILL, W.Va.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

In the civil rights era, Greenville, Mississippi was the model of desegregation for the nation, a shining example held up by the famous Coleman Report of a community doing it the right way. And yet, the Justice Department has not asked the district to report on the performance of the minority students desegregation is supposed to help.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

I would have been a dropout.”. As a result of Say Yes Buffalo partnerships, 11 district schools currently have on-site full-service health clinics; a mobile health clinic program is set to launch next fall. I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her. And I do that with [Stubbe]. high schools?

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