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How districts can proactively protect against school shootings

eSchool News

K-12 schools are facing a national teacher shortage and declining public school student enrollments, with enrollment dropping by roughly 3 percent in 2020-21 compared with the previous school year. Furthermore, according to K-12 School Shooting Database founder David Riedman, 100,000 out of 130,000 U.S.

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Teacher dropouts

The Innovative Educator

Editor''s note: This is a living post to which I will continue adding the stories of teacher dropouts as they are brought to my attention. The jobs these teacher dropouts are yearning for exists outside government schools.

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Addressing the needs of all learners at Wolf Creek Public Schools

Hapara

Nestled in the rural territory of Alberta, Canada, Wolf Creek Public Schools (WCPS) consists of 29 schools that serve over 7,300 K-12 students, including 10% or 750 who self-identify as First Nations, Inuit or Metis. . In fact, dropout rates were reduced to 2.2% Challenges at Wolf Creek. in 2020, well below the 2.9%

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OPINION: The Supreme Court ruling on race in college admissions ignores bigger inequities that must be addressed

The Hechinger Report

In Philadelphia, 49 percent of students who graduated from public high schools matriculated to a college or university, a number that does not account for the 19 percent pushout or dropout rate of students who did not graduate from high school. Driving that overall inequity is the inequity in funding. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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A Test Worth Teaching To? How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT

Edsurge

The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. But we don’t want it to take 12 hours or 12 weeks to learn—it should take 12 years.”

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Acceleration Academies Appoints Kelli Campbell as New Chief Executive Officer

eSchool News

Campbell spent 17 years at Discovery Education, the global leader in standards-based digital content for K-12 school districts, and most recently served as President of the company. We are confident that Kelli is the right leader to accelerate the company’s growth opportunities.” We partner with school districts across the U.S.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

At Putnam County, you have put in a lot of effort into helping students prepare for that transition from K-12 to higher education. For someone to say that [K-12 and higher education] are not linked, I think that's way off. How do you think you prepare students to be successful in community college and beyond? Sam Brooks.

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