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Students can also take the test again before the next school year to try and achieve a passing grade. Another provision allows students to move up a grade, as long as the school gives them tutoring for a full school year. The bill would also require students who are retained to receive tutoring.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Nearly 1,200 fourth grade students in the district are required to get tutoring interventions this year.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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MAY 12, 2024

We provided statewide access to training and tutoring for assessments in partnership with our teacher advocacy organizations and focused on building community among Black educators.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math.

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MAY 10, 2021

Rosinger said not to expect “dramatic gains” in diversity from eliminating testing requirements because the other qualifications that admissions departments weigh, such as extra-curricular activities and advanced high school courses, “tend to privilege the same students who are privileged by test scores.”

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I experienced a supportive environment for students, including a range of safety nets, personalized advising, ample financial resources and an individualized tutoring program. enroll in community colleges after high school. Forty-four percent of low-income students in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. Two years ago, the university created a literacy lab at Southwest Primary School, a few miles down the road from Viewmont Elementary in Hickory.

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MAY 19, 2024

(School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.) Younger students attend the K-8 campus on the former boarding school site, while the high school is located in a gleaming new tower nearby at the Central New Mexico College. No language class, nothing,” Joshua said of his previous school. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Guadalupe Hernandez, 13, argues being suspended for missing class did little to motivate him to regularly attend school. He says his attendance and grades improved after he received counseling, tutoring and medication to control his multiple behavior disorders. Most of those suspensions happened at Mohave High School.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. Yet the Brentwood Union Free School District suspended Martinez for more than six months. BRENTWOOD, N.Y. looking for him.

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Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

I took quality notes in class, worked tirelessly on problem sets and sought extra help from my professor and tutors. I embarked on a mentally exhausting pursuit for academic accommodations that made me doubt my belonging and ability to succeed at my school. When the time had come to take the test again, I understood the material.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution. Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. a former assistant U.S.

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Her first two years of high school, she cycled through three different schools. Nationally, just 50 percent of foster youth graduate high school by age 18, according to estimates, and 2 to 9 percent obtain a bachelor’s degree. He graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.

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MARCH 1, 2022

Two Massachusetts parents interviewed for this piece said their school district’s list of “approved” independent evaluators included psychologists who actually weren’t licensed to work in the state. Still, she says, “sometimes the expectations parents have around the progress kids should make in school is too high.

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JUNE 4, 2019

The first time Hsiulien Perez attended Indiana University Northwest, in the early 1990s, she had just graduated from high school and given birth to her first child. The steel mills where Perez’s father worked paid good wages to people straight out of high school. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. GARY, Ind. —

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MARCH 25, 2019

Because of her work at the university’s Student Social Support R&D Lab , which hunts for low-cost solutions in education, she was curious to calculate just how much bang schools are getting for this two-cent solution to reduce absenteeism. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. This is increasingly true among high school graduates less accustomed to forging their own paths, he said.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He had high cognitive scores, but evaluators said he did not show skill gaps in the areas he needed to qualify as dyslexic. School got harder and harder for Ruiz, and in high school he was still inverting letters and having trouble with reading.

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APRIL 17, 2024

In a study she co-authored of an unusual program that gives college scholarships to both high school students and their parents in Toledo, Ohio, the Institute for Policy Research found that students and parents alike performed at or above average , despite what Sommer noted were financial challenges and limited academic preparation. “Ask

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AUGUST 26, 2018

Related: High-paying jobs go begging while high school grads line up for bachelor’s degrees. Some are parents themselves, work at least part time or have taken time off since graduating from high school. They don’t have the luxury of turning away applicants with low high school GPAs or low SAT scores.”.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

With $6,500 at their disposal, students who qualify may use the funds for a variety of education-related needs, including tuition, a tutor or textbooks. Grant Callen, president of “school choice” advocacy group Empower Mississippi, speaks before a crowd at the Capitiol at the beginning of National School Choice Week in February.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. Seaver notes her appreciation for a recently rolled out virtual tutoring program.).

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MARCH 21, 2017

“We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship. He’s a survivor,” Watfa Shama, his high school principal, said.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

After graduating from Northside High School in Columbus, she dreamed of attending Savannah College of Art and Design, but it was too expensive. Related: Reality check: After four tough years of college prep, high school seniors grapple with gaps in financial aid. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz Kolodner/The Hechinger Report.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. Some states’ figures are even higher. It’s hard to cope. Three missed meetings are grounds for expulsion. “We

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JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. In Mississippi, she said, there is debate about how much more resources schools require, but few dispute that there is a need. “We But next fiscal year is already clouded by uncertainty.

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JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Gestson runs the Phoenix Union High School District in Arizona, which has 22 high schools. Chad Gestson, superintendent of the Phoenix Union High School District, walking with Cheri Hardwick, principal at the Academies at South Mountain. Credit: Phoenix Union High School District.

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APRIL 29, 2022

The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning. School diversion programs are still relatively new.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

So, Hampton taught herself how to teach phonics, and devoted much of her time to tutoring her students in reading. “As The committee pushed to change the admissions system for the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology magnet school, for instance, to broaden access for Black and Hispanic students.

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MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. But this individualized education is expensive; Quad tuition is nearly $75,000 a year.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

English teacher Samara Rand goes over a passage with a student in her class at Holmes County Central High School. The high school ranked as one of the lowest performing in Mississippi and Rand, a second-year teacher, often dissects passages with her students. Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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JUNE 27, 2020

But for grandparents raising grandchildren, that’s not possible, said Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. The coronavirus pandemic closed schools and launched a national experiment in remote learning that has been chaotic and stressful for millions of American families.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.

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