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Addressing the needs of all learners at Wolf Creek Public Schools

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Since 2015, H?para In addition, teachers at WCPS have also created or modified courses in Workspace for elementary through high school learners. “Equitable access has changed the landscape for learners at Wolf Creek, and H?para In fact, dropout rates were reduced to 2.2% Their continuous use of H?para

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.”. .”

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year. “That’s something that I always wanted to be in. I never really wanted to go from school to school.”. Credit: Grace Beahm Alford/Staff.

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Online prekindergarten access and funds for school counselors among bills proposed in Mississippi this year

The Hechinger Report

Although Mississippi has not adopted online preschool programs to the same extent as other states, during the 2015-16 school year, a group of children in Mississippi participated in a pilot program of the UPSTART kindergarten-readiness program.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. Why are women locked out?

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. But even free legal aid can be difficult for already-vulnerable families to access.