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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

The Hechinger Report

Montes, who was featured in a New York Times article on food insecurity , and who took out a $5,000 loan to pay for tuition and fees, lives in a homeless shelter in Harlem as she attends classes, works two part-time jobs and budgets only $15 per week for food.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

edWeb.net

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Achieve3000.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled. We will never know.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Meanwhile on Campus… There are currently over 100 HBCUs in the US, but an article in HBCU Digest predicts “About 50 HBCUs Will Survive the Next Decade. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? It’s Time to Start Investing in Them.” of Florida.” ” asks the Pioneer Press.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski.