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National Month of Hope
Event Date: From “National Titanic Remembrance Day” to “National Window Safety Week,” there are so many holidays that no one could observe them all. But there’s one obscure remembrance that we’re really coming to appreciation this year: April is the “National Month of Hope.” The idea for this celebratory month came from a Florida-based non-profit that serves […]
Read MoreWhen it comes to summer school, it’s not either-or, but both
Event Date: School leaders have a unique opportunity to make up valuable lost time — but they’ll have to act fast to make it happen. That’s the opinion of Edward Clark, a professor and co-chair of a pediatric care organization that serves more than 200,000 children and their families. He recently noted that “school kids have fallen […]
Read MoreState Programs That Help Adults Earn a High School Diploma
Event Date: INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana March 24, 2021 A state program is assisting adults land better jobs and make Indiana more attractive to businesses by helping them earn their high school diploma. It is free and only for adults 22 and up. The program is made possible by Governor Holcomb’s Workforce Cabinet and the online education company Graduation […]
Read MoreHere’s how to prevent teacher shortages from putting a dampen on course choices for students
Event Date: James Bolling won’t be easy to replace. When the longtime teacher from Oakdale, California, retired from Riverdale High School in December, he took with him all of the knowledge and skills he applied to teaching life skills, sex education, technology, special education, science, math, and English — in all four grade levels. It will be […]
Read MoreThe clock is ticking for this year’s seniors
Event Date: Alex Harris knows there is little time to lose. “It’s important to really drill into this question of learning loss,” he recently warned. “The longer we wait, the worse it’s going to be.” Harris, who is the vice president of programs for the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, which build’s resources for Hawaii’s future, was specifically […]
Read MoreMaking summer school meaningful
Event Date: Research shows that summer school programs that provide individualized instruction are more effective than those that do not. But many school districts lack the resources to provide content, instructional technology, and paced learning based on the abilities and interests of each learner. Online learning programs that offer one-size-fits-all courses won’t help — especially since the […]
Read MoreHow to help credit-deficient seniors
Event Date: It’s a problem in communities across the country. In Houston, Texas, nearly half of all high school students received at least one failing grade in the first semester of the year. About 40 percent of high schoolers failed to receive credit for a class in St. Paul, Minnesota. And in Sonoma County, California, the number […]
Read MoreAcross the nation, we’re helping schools re-engage students
Event Date: A teacher looks down at her list of students and sighs. Her district had just given her a new task: A social-emotional “check in” with every student, every day. “It’s not that I don’t want to do it,” she says. “I believe 100 percent in social emotional support. I try to bake it into everything […]
Read MoreDespite a lack of resources – counselors found ways to help
Event Date: From the start, it was clear: School counselors were going to be some of the most important people for students struggling to adjust to a dynamically changing social, emotional and academic environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as we come upon the one-year anniversary of massive school closures related to the pandemic, a new report […]
Read MoreAttendance Recovery Expansion
Event Date: Across the United States, students are struggling to attend both real and virtual classes. And the result is that more students are falling behind, failing classes, becoming credit deficient, and becoming at-risk of not graduating. Now more than ever, students are in need of engagement support. This is why education leaders have partnered with Graduation […]
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