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Chronic absenteeism threatens to derail K-12 education

eSchool News

Key points: Chronic absenteeism leads to much higher dropout rates 5 ways school districts can create successful community partnerships Data gaps negatively impact academic progress and attendance For more on chronic absenteeism, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub The biggest problem in education is that kids arent showing up to school.

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AllHere Gets a ‘Nudge’ to Scale Low-Cost, Research-Backed Way to Improve Student Outcomes

Edsurge

What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed. Based in Boston, AllHere has developed tools to help schools track and improve student attendance. But sometimes these efforts backfire.

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Redesigning, Reimagining, and Rethinking American Education

edWeb.net

In a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , the presenters discussed the findings of the AASA Learning 2025 National Commission and the need to get more students engaged in their own educational experience. About the Moderator.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. References and further readings Binder, T., Sandmann, A., Sures, B. IJ STEM Ed , 6 (33).

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

There is no one answer for what the coming school year will look like, but it won’t resemble the fall of 2019. “I’m in touch with my students two, three times a week,” by text, phone, Google classroom and Zoom meetings, Concepcion says. Future outbreaks will make for unpredictable waves of closures.

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

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. They’ve got to have a focus on the younger students, on the students who are transitioning to high school.” Related: More studies mark the pandemic’s toll on student achievement.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

Between 2015 and 2019, Americans’ faith in higher education dropped more than their confidence in any other institution measured by the Gallup polling organization — an extraordinary erosion of trust, considering that list includes the presidency, Congress, big business and the criminal justice system.

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