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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

One fear expressed was about how the mostly Black and Latino students at 28 schools would fare under a plan created by new Superintendent Mike Miles that would require school libraries to cease, in essence, functioning as libraries. Demonstrators gather in August 2023 in protest of Houston ISD's plan to close libraries in schools.

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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The shuttering of a rural university reveals a surprising source of its financing

The Hechinger Report

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. The most recent scores are from 2019-20. Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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Urban Adult Literacy Collaboration in Nashville: Building Networks for Frontline Talent Development

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Nashville Public Library. Nashville Public Library. While providers had long understood the need to work together, they lacked “a central place for connection and information to discuss the work,” according to Kelly Blenkenship, adult education project manager for the Nashville Public Library Foundation. YWCA of Nashville.

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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

The Hechinger Report

By 2019, Ayers had helped impoverished Perry County reach an 86 percent college-going rate (57 students), the highest in the state, according to government figures. percent for fall 2020 over fall 2019, according to federal data — OTC says it had a 14 percent rise last summer and only a 2 percent drop this fall.

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How apprenticeships bring young students into the workplace

The Hechinger Report

Students list their top five picks from among the group’s 70-plus worksite partners across the city — restaurants, libraries, pizza shops, architectural firms, radio stations, corporate offices, national nonprofits, and government offices like the one where Tejani works. Many of us were maybe awkward teenagers,” he said.

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‘Big Brothers’ Can Have a Lasting Impact on Kids, Study Finds

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The pair spent time reading at the library and volunteering, and Witchet remembers the sweeping views he took in during visits to Dennison’s high-rise office. Bradley Dennison (left) and his "little brother" Timothy Witchet celebrate Witchet's graduation from Texas Southern University in May 2019.

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