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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school. Skills gap.

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PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. Intuitively, teachers and parents know that it’s much harder to improve a person’s academic trajectory later in life.

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How a focus on teachers helps a charter district serve the most challenging students

eSchool News

Opened in 1995 as a dropout recovery high school and one of the first generation of charters in Texas, the George Gervin Academy is actually six campuses in one—with five campuses in San Antonio and one in Phoenix. If George Gervin Academy cherry-picks students, it is to select the ones who need the most support.

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OPINION: Post-pandemic, let’s develop true education-to-workforce pathways to secure a better future

The Hechinger Report

Pathways efforts in places like these are leading to vibrant career options that provide economic opportunity and upward mobility for more students. Tennessee has made a historic investment of $500 million to bring innovative pathways models to every public high school and middle school in the state.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. The atrium at Mary Harris Mother Jones Elementary school in Prince George’s County, Maryland, is lined with flags from different countries, including those in Central America. And she is happy.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Islas, a staff member at Think College Now, a public elementary school in Oakland, with her daughter, Jesimiel Merida-Islas, who received a laptop and hot spot after months of sharing a computer with her mother.

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Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

edWeb.net

Research illuminates its impact: Elementary school students who miss 10% of school show weaker social skills development, lower reading ability, and higher grade-retention rates. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential.