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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is thrilled to announce 37 districts—including 26 new districts and 11 returning districts—will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2021-2022 school year. Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents.

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Intergenerational Care Benefits Children and Seniors. Why Is It Still So Rare?

ED Surge

As of 2021, fewer than 150 such facilities operated in the United States, according to Donna Butts, executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit that advocates for intergenerational policies and programming. Intergenerational shared sites we think they really are the way of the future. As they age, their social networks contract.

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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

The organization, Attendance Works, believes that the number of students missing at least 18 days* of school a year doubled to 16 million in 2021-22 from 8 million students before the pandemic. It may be a full year before we will have national data on student absences during 2021-22 from the U.S. 27, 2022 blog post.

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Dual enrollment has exploded. But it’s hard to tell if it’s helping more kids get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

million students in the fall of 2021 and roughly 300,000 students in the early 2000s. asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 That’s up from 1.5

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Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students

The Hechinger Report

The program, called the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, is run by a national nonprofit, Active Minds, which advocates for college students mental health. In the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, she encourages students to think about what their communities need and what kinds of support they and their peers might benefit from.

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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

Now that the firestorm has passed, some say the initial judgments were too harsh: The percentage of students enrolled in math classes in San Francisco beyond Algebra II increased from 2018 to 2021, according to data recently highlighted by detracking advocate Kentaro Iwasaki, founder of Concentric Math.

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OPINION: During civic learning week, let’s push for national progress toward a more perfect union

The Hechinger Report

Since 2021, many politically diverse states have followed Illinois lead, strengthening K-12 civics instruction and incentivizing students civic development. Shawn Healy is chief of Policy and Advocacy for iCivics.org and directs the CivxNow coalition. Contact the opinion editor at opinion@hechingerreport.org.

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