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

The Hechinger Report

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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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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The district also opened 26 Family Resource Centers , where families of enrolled students can receive health-related services from school counselors and psychologists as well as support related to parenting, behavior management, crisis intervention, suicide prevention and attendance issues.

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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. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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

The Hechinger Report

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. RELATED: Hot spots no silver bullet for rural remote learning.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

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.) – for individualizing instruction using real-time data from an engaging adaptive learning tool to boost elementary classroom performance. Orestimba High School (Calif.) – for creating a new way for students to study and explore their interests via access to online courses at a rural school with a 100 percent graduation rate.

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

The Hechinger Report

“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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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

A 2020 review of nearly 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring was particularly helpful in reading during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children. But less frequent tutoring, such as having sessions once a week, was not. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

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