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STUDENT VOICE: The path to health equity begins in K-12 classrooms

The Hechinger Report

To mitigate these disparities, we must look beyond our hospitals and medical schools and into the places where young minds are shaped: our K-12 classrooms. Surya Pulukuri is a member of the class of 2027 at Harvard Medical School. Related: Become a lifelong learner. It begins in the classroom.

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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

ED Surge

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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Climate Change Took a Heavy Toll on the U.S. Last Year. What’s the Cost to Education?

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With experts predicting more extreme weather in 2023, that undoubtedly means schools will suffer more disruptions in a K-12 education era already defined by pandemic-related learning setbacks. Climate Change’s Education Cost Climate change impacts on K-12 education are a problem worldwide. In the U.S.,

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How to Drive Student Success With Creative Generative AI Tools in the Classroom: Part 1

ED Surge

Imagine if every student learned how to apply creative thinking to every subject throughout their educational experience, from K-12 through college. Even though 65 percent of students learn more effectively by doing and creating , the opportunities to do so are too rarely available.

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

The Hechinger Report

The projections for all 12 grades end after 2020, but before that, between 2015 and 2020, the total number of students falls by only 1.4 Grades eight through 12 are larger cohorts who were born before 2008. Its most recent projections, released May 2018 , show that student enrollment should increase 3 percent between 2015 and 2027.

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Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high schools graduates will decline

The Hechinger Report

After a few years of some growth, the report projects that from 2027 to 2032 the annual graduation totals will each be smaller by 150,000 to 220,000 people than the ones the nation had in 2013. The projected enrollment declines are “related to overall declines in births and student enrollments in K-12.”. .

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Mississippi’s graduation rate gaps are among lowest in the country, report finds

The Hechinger Report

A little bad news: Mississippi is projected to lose students by 2027: Mississippi is one of 10 states, and the only one in the south, projected to see an enrollment decrease of 5 percentage points or more by 2027.