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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Distance learning began March 23.

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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

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DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

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Students learn in different ways and have varying needs. The Fuel Education ® Transformation Awards program celebrates schools, districts, or organizations that are successfully transforming the way teachers teach and students learn.

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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 I have literally hung up the phone and had to cry, because the problems are so deep,” Ward said. Last year, 50 did. It’s so sad.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs. Karolewics, president of Wallace State.

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Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future

The Hechinger Report

Rensselaer Polytech language students learn Mandarin Chinese by conversing with AI avatars. If history is a guide, the flashiest notions being workshopped in these places won’t get far. The learner, the learning provider and the employer all are speaking different languages that don’t interconnect.”. MANCHESTER, N.H.

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How the coronavirus has upended college admissions

The Hechinger Report

Her school often holds orientations with representatives from local community colleges as well as application workshops. April is also a pivotal time for students planning to attend community colleges, said Vanessa Goulart, a school counselor at Fremont High School in San Jose, California.