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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2019

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Education is complicated. And some of the toughest issues educators face don’t fit neatly into a short article. Sometimes the best insights come by hearing education leaders work through their thoughts or struggle to explain their challenges. High School Dropout. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ Is Teaching an Art or a Science? Here’s How.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. When Travis-Curtis became principal in 2019, enrollment was plummeting.

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PROOF POINTS: When women studied with women, they persisted, study finds

The Hechinger Report

That’s what a University of Zurich graduate student found in an experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups. Their dropout rates were very similar whether they were in a study group’s minority or the majority. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course.

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Why America Needs More Black Male Teachers

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For years, Black males have been underrepresented in PK-12 education. While there have been many efforts to diversify classrooms by adding more Black male educators, there are still obstacles preventing us from successfully reaching this goal. Medgar Roberts was an author of the paper and NNSTOY contributor.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students

The Hechinger Report

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. The first rigorous evaluation of one of the larger programs came out in October 2019 and found some promising results. Higher Education.

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A decade of data in one state shows an unexpected result when colleges drop remedial courses

The Hechinger Report

In 2015, Tennessee’s public colleges were some of the first higher education institutions to eliminate stand-alone remedial courses. Some critics of corequisite reforms, such as Delta College’s Goudas, argue that some form of remedial education needs to be reintroduced for students who lack basic math, reading and writing skills.

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