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COLUMN: Isolated in dorm rooms or stuck at home, some freshmen wonder if college is worth it

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Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. I was upset and didn’t want to be home at first, but now I’m kind of thankful,” said Asiedu, 18.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Pleasant View Elementary in Providence, Rhode Island, for instance, started Summit with fifth-graders in 2015, and this year introduced a few aspects of the approach to fourth-graders.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

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Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tyrone Turner for WAMU. The stories she hears are awful.