How a Free, 24/7 Tutoring Model is Disrupting Learning Loss for …
WEBSep 14, 2023 — A new 24-hour online tutoring service is helping the nation’s most underserved students make huge academic gains — at no cost to them. UPchieve, an ed tech nonprofit, is bringing on volunteer tutors to offer free, on-demand academic and college application support to any U.S. middle or high school student attending a Title I school or ...
New Data: School Shootings Surge to a Record High - The 74
WEBSep 13, 2023 — Fourteen people were wounded or killed in active school shootings in 2021, the report revealed, compared to a high of 81 in 2018. Between 2000 and 2021, there were 46 active shooting incidents, resulting in 108 deaths and 168 injuries. Of the 47 people who carried out the active shootings, all but one was male.
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WEBThe 74 interviews the top thinkers, policymakers and leaders in American education. College, Career, Learning Recovery: How America's high schools are evolving for the next generation of teenagers. An Enduring Legacy of the …
‘Astonishing’ Absenteeism, Trauma Rates Root of Academic Crisis
WEBJun 23, 2024 — Alaska, Arizona, Washington D.C., and Oregon saw the highest chronic absenteeism rates, between 42 and 46%. Idaho, Louisiana, New Jersey and Washington saw the lowest, with between 4 and 18% of kids chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year, the latest available data. Several New England states that invest heavily in …
Report: Charter Schools Are Failing Students with Disabilities
WEBJul 16, 2024 — Washington charter schools, the center reported, enroll a higher percentage of students with disabilities than the state’s traditional district schools, place almost all of them in general education classrooms and, in instances where data is available, see bigger learning gains. However, the successes are not uniform, and huge gaps remain ...
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‘Oregon Trail’ at 50: How Three Teachers Created the Computer …
WEBDec 2, 2021 — Teachers began taking notice. The game quickly became MECC’s most popular title. As desktop computers began to sprout in classrooms, MECC spun off a for-profit company that sold millions of copies of The Oregon Trail and other early titles nationwide.. A new generation of coders added graphics, sounds, and music to create the versions of The Oregon Trail that most kids have played since.
Can Right Answers Be Wrong? Latest Clash Over ‘White ... - The 74
WEBJun 21, 2021 — Get essential education news and commentary delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter.. T o learn the geometric concept of transformations this year, Crystal Watson’s eighth-graders drew up blueprints of apartments. As they worked, she asked them to imagine designing affordable housing for Black and Hispanic families like theirs in Cincinnati who have ...
Analysis: Schools Are Facing a Surge of Failing Grades During the ...
WEBFeb 8, 2021 — I n a year of educational crisis, fall report cards brought more troubling news.. Failing grades are on the rise across the country — especially for students who are learning online. Worrying data points are emerging across the country: In New Mexico, more than 40 percent of middle and high school students were failing at …
A History of Holding Parents Responsible for Their Kids’ Crimes
WEBFeb 9, 2024 — Eve Brank, a professor of law and psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, told The 74 that she is unaware, after decades of researching the emergence of parental responsibility laws, of “any empirical research that shows that imposing punishments on parents because of the actions of the …