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With no silver bullet, innovation abounds at this bilingual high school

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Related: “Deeper Learning” improves student outcomes. Additionally, the school is getting close to having one laptop for every student, and a 3D printer gives students in technology classes a chance to go beyond the conceptual stage of design. But what is it? Last year, students studied the Latino influence in U.S.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

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On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Degree-holders command an 11 to 30 percent wage premium yet fail to justify that premium in productivity and other outcomes.

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Family Engagement: Empowerment, Achievement, Partnerships, Unity

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The ingredients are the foundation of the district’s strategic planning process centered on determining and achieving student outcomes. Forming empowering relationships with parents and caregivers leads to more successful student outcomes, higher graduation rates, and lower absenteeism and dropout rates.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

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Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I I do what I can, whenever I can, for my children,” she said. On the way back to her car, she saw a group of her students.

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For anxious students, a teacher who comes to your house might be the answer

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They set up two laptops and began their weekly, three-hour class. Touro University associate professor Michael Barbour has been critical of the increased use of these practices — particularly in statewide cyber charter schools — because their outcomes often lag behind those of traditional programs. Instead, school was coming to her.

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Federal relief money boosted community colleges, but now it’s going away

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Colleges and universities have used much of the federal HEERF money to cover extra costs associated with the pandemic — such as buying more laptops and cleaning equipment, setting up hot spots for students and making up for lost tuition revenue. And they’ve bought equipment and services designed to improve academic outcomes.

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When it comes to struggling schools, school choice is no substitute for systemic change

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work on laptops during class. By earlier accounts , this program helped lower the number of high school “dropout factories” with increased graduation rates and boosted test scores in about two-thirds of the schools in the program. Students at Lovett Elementary in Clinton, Miss. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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