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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

The Hechinger Report

percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. In 2021, New Mexico had the fourth-lowest per capita income ; many of my students came from low-income families where they were encouraged to earn and not to learn. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

The Hechinger Report

At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Bailey Fraser, 15 (left), and her stepsister Leah Kimball, 15, volunteer with Edible Bethel during their service learning block. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

So he has no idea if they’re learning. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go. Your stories. Read the stories. Few speak up.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? It incorporates case studies to demonstrate how the framework and its dimensions could be operationalized, and how the gaps identified in the self-assessment exercise could be addressed.

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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. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. When you don’t have basic needs met, you can’t learn.”. “I Related: Students who counted on work-study jobs now struggle to pay their bills. Rosa Vasquez has seen students quit already.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. Founded in 1804 on hills beside the Hocking River in a city named Athens for its ambition to be a center of learning, O.U. There is big tension over purpose and identity.”.

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