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A gender gap in STEM widened during the pandemic. Schools are trying to make up lost ground
[ad_1] IRVING, Texas — Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built.…
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Tutoring was supposed to save American kids after the pandemic. The results? ‘Sobering’
[ad_1] Rigorous research rarely shows that any teaching approach produces large and consistent benefits for students. But tutoring seemed to be a rare exception.…
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What one state learned after a decade of free community college
[ad_1] View of the Tennessee State Capitol, where lawmakers were the first in the nation to pass a law in 2014 to make community…
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OPINION: As federal pandemic funds end, K-12 systems must look for bold changes – The Hechinger Report
[ad_1] Educators around the country are scrambling to save jobs and programs created in the last few years as they face the end of…
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Summer learning programs try to help students catch up before federal money ends
[ad_1] LYNN, Mass. — In a middle school classroom in this Colonial-era city north of Boston, four 13- and 14-year-old boys were creating a…
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OPINION: Urban school districts must make dramatic changes to survive
[ad_1] Urban school districts are in crisis. Student and teacher absenteeism, special education referrals, mental health complications and violence within and outside schools are…
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PROOF POINTS: New studies of online tutoring highlight troubles with attendance and larger tutoring groups
[ad_1] Ever since the pandemic shut down schools in the spring of 2020, education researchers have pointed to tutoring as the most promising way…
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PROOF POINTS: Some of the $190 billion in pandemic money for schools actually paid off
[ad_1] Reports about schools squandering their $190 billion in federal pandemic recovery money have been troubling. Many districts spent that money on things that…
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OPINION: There’s a promising path to get students back on track to graduation – The Hechinger Report
[ad_1] Rates of chronic absenteeism are at record-high levels. More than 1 in 4 students missed 10 percent or more of the 2021-22 school…
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PROOF POINTS: We have tried paying teachers based on how much students learn. Now schools are expanding that idea to contractors and vendors.
[ad_1] Schools spend billions of dollars a year on products and services, including everything from staplers and textbooks to teacher coaching and training. Does…
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PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipeline
[ad_1] The STEM pipeline – a metaphor for the development of future scientists, engineers and other high tech workers – likely starts with a…
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PROOF POINTS: Tracking student data falls short in combating absenteeism at school
[ad_1] Chronic absenteeism has surged across the country since the pandemic, with more than one out of four students missing at least 18 days…
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OPINION: Our college students are struggling emotionally. We need to understand how to help them – The Hechinger Report
[ad_1] Our students are struggling. As a college president and a clinical psychologist, I know this well. Recent headlines tell a distressing story about…
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PROOF POINTS: Four lessons from post-pandemic tutoring research
[ad_1] Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. There have been…
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Fewer kids are enrolling in kindergarten as pandemic fallout lingers
[ad_1] This story was produced by The Associated Press and EdSource and republished with permission. CONCORD, Calif. – Aylah Levy had some catching up…
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PROOF POINTS: There is a worldwide problem in math and it's not just about the pandemic
[ad_1] Numbers don’t lie, right? But they also don’t always tell the whole story. That’s the case with the most recent results from a…
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OPINION: Historically underserved school districts in Mississippi were hit hard in the pandemic and need immediate help – The Hechinger Report
[ad_1] In the heart of the Deep South, Mississippi has wrestled with enduring educational disparities, a profoundly rooted challenge passed down through generations. The…