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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

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A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. Credit: Getty Images.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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New report gives Mississippi an F in regulatory oversight of for-profit colleges

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Mississippi’s regulatory oversight of for-profit colleges is weak, and the state does not do enough to protect students from these sometimes predatory institutions, according to a new national report by the Children’s Advocacy Institute. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Eligible but got nothing: Hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities blocked from college aid

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The backup in Milwaukee is so severe that it is not uncommon for people to wait six weeks to get a first appointment to begin the eligibility process, said Cathy Steffke, an advocacy specialist at Disability Rights Wisconsin. “I Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit.

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Eligible for job and college aid, half of Tennesseans with disabilities get nothing

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“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. Her daughter, Hannah, is on the autism spectrum and graduated from high school in 2012. More advocacy.”. More paperwork.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

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based education advocacy group. “It In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions. Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

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The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. And last fall, the Kincade Fire forced the largest evacuation in Sonoma County history.