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Online Tutor–Is it Right For You?

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It means that if you are a good teacher, you might be teaching students from all over the world using your laptop, headphones and a web camera. It also means that you always keep learning about adaptive teaching strategies. Naturally, dropout rates of online teaching courses are lower than those of traditional classes.

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Supporting Educational Recovery with Community and Family Engagement

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In Fayette County Public Schools, there are family engagement coordinators in every school, and those coordinators played a similar role in providing laptops, hot spots, books, and food during the pandemic. In addition, the students receive similar books to read on their own. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Join the Community.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them. This is our blue-ocean strategy,” said Haefner. Related: Universities that are recruiting older students often leave them floundering.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. It’s a strategy to help them build back their academic identity, he said. She felt she lost her muscle for being a student.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

Then the newly hired principal, Faith Mabe, heard about a new strategy for helping students. The new strategy aimed to alleviate the social and emotional needs of students. In the face of such challenges, everyone — including Mabe — was skeptical that a social-emotional learning strategy could help. “I

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

The Hechinger Report

Besides offering all classes in both English and Spanish and embracing the language and culture of its a predominantly Latino student body, administrators prioritized a host of highly regarded improvement strategies in the school’s design. When it comes to student engagement, “crew” is another element of the school’s overall strategy.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

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. To submit your question or vote on our next topic, click here. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. A ‘1-percent market’.

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