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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

The Hechinger Report

He remembers thinking it looked like a book you’d find in an elementary school, with a picture of the numbers 1 through 9 written in the sand of a beach on the cover. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. In Maryland, 14 percent of students in special education dropped out of school.

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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. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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How I build relationships with students using instructional audio

eSchool News

Small Elementary School in South Portland, Maine. Higher student academic engagement, grades, attendance, fewer disruptive behaviors and suspensions, and lower school dropout rates all improve with strong teacher-student relationships. Here’s how I’m using instructional audio as a second-grade teacher at Dora L. Come on down!”

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How districts can proactively protect against school shootings

eSchool News

While Robb Elementary School was the target in this particular tragedy, school shootings have proven to have a domino effect that permeates the entire school system. continues to grapple with its gun-related violence problem as new shootings make headlines every day.

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5 percent statewide dropout rate, according to 2020-21 Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education data, and special needs students fare particularly well at voc-tech schools. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone. In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments.

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Improving reading skills and SEL through text-based discussions

eSchool News

SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear. Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages.

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