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

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How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. We wanted to deal with that first.”.

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How one school is coping with mental health: Social workers delivering technology, food and counseling to kids at home, and open office hours all day — even when school is out

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At some homes, she translates school emails into Spanish and answers technical questions. Then she gets down to what has become the meat of her job as a school social worker at College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School: making sure her students and their families are coping with the multiple stresses of the pandemic. “We

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How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners

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Since its inception in 2002, Making Community Connections Charter School (MC 2 ) has been committed to personalizing learning. The post How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity

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More than 330 schools now use the Summit Learning Platform, designed by the Summit charter school network in California and Washington.). Related: Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

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Some low-income prospective students now are working to help their families, said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America; others are seeing record unemployment rates and wondering whether there will be any jobs for them, even with degrees. “It’s going to affect them for a really long time.”.

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Silicon Valley aims its tech at helping low-income kids get beyond high school

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Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

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Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. Department of Health and Human Services. Despite her stated disinterest, the level of physical activity Anna and her classmates experience during their school day is unusual and probably beneficial.