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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

.” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.

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

The Hechinger Report

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate. On a typical school day, Tameka’s four children — now 14, 12, 9 and 8 — sleep late and stay inside watching television or playing video games.

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

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up.

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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. The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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

Edsurge

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. Instead, I integrated a cyber reflection time where students could blog, create a podcast, make a video, or utilize another medium to express their thoughts about what they read. What a summer.

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‘It’s really hard to parent from behind bars’

The Hechinger Report

To help, some organizations have started programs to film incarcerated parents reading and deliver the videos to their children. In a forthcoming report, her organization recommends that teachers hold conferences via video with incarcerated parents when possible and send parents copies of their children’s progress reports.

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