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Addressing the needs of all learners at Wolf Creek Public Schools

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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% respectively, in 2019 and 2020. Their continuous use of H?para

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

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The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. percent jump in those who were bullied or by text or online.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

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Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. The report said that at one UC campus, which it did not name, the share of undergraduates withdrawing with debt doubled from 2019-2020 to 2020-2021 and the amount of debt owed tripled.

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PROOF POINTS: New wave of research shows nudging students by text is not as promising as hoped

The Hechinger Report

A 2019 study of texting and providing other information to almost 800,000 low- and middle-income students who scored in the top 50 percent on the PSAT and the SAT found no change in the types of colleges that students enrolled in. High school seniors were targeted, as were college dropouts who wanted to resume their studies.

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OPINION: Why we must invest in new, innovative workforce training to fill a skills gap

The Hechinger Report

The job market analytics company Burning Glass reports that nine out of ten tech jobs sit outside the technology sector and that, in the utility sector alone, 35 percent of job openings in 2019 were in IT. We simply must do more to prepare the American workforce for these opportunities.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

The Hechinger Report

That’s higher than the district’s fall 2018 numbers and a slight drop from 2019. In Denver, on the other hand, districtwide data shows that suspensions were down by 55 percent in fall 2021 compared with fall 2019, though 1,000 of Denver’s 92,000 students were suspended in the first four months of the school year.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

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On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. There are gifted dropouts.

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