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Despite research showing that recovery high schools help students stay clean and earn diplomas, the often costly programs remain small-scale and rare.
Jeffery Smith (top, left) boosts graduation rate and lowers dropout rate for Virginia district; John Jungmann (top, right) launches Missouri district collaboratives; LeVar Ammons (bottom, left) becomes director of equity and student success in Illinois; and Michael Looney (bottom, right) is heading up a Georgia district.
PE teachers are motivating students by personalizing exercise with wearable technology such as Fitbits, Apple Watches and Polar sensors.
Integrating the arts into science lessons helps the lowest-performing students retain more content, and doesn’t require much funding to do.
Even though classroom introverts often earn good grades, follow directions and prepare well, they still need support from educators to truly thrive.
The Students Against Violence app enables states to address pressing issues for young people, including bullying, teen dating violence and suicide, and provides resources for students dealing with domestic violence, self-harm, and drug abuse.
School administrators can learn effective strategies on how to stop school fights by participating in training seminars from companies such as the Crisis Prevention Institute. Here are a few violence prevention tips.
At their hometown high schools, they were dropouts, bad kids, problems. At home, they lied to their parents, stole from their siblings or sneaked out to get high. Sometimes, they […]
Family problems, absences and poor grades can drive students to becoming a dropout. But what actually drives many teenagers to quit school, say experts, is a sense that nobody in the building cares about them.
While there are other significant concerns about potential dangers created with many current options-based active shooter training approaches, I find the running option to be perhaps the most dangerous as presently taught.
Following Texas and Georgia, West Virginia is the latest state to pass legislation pertaining to the use of cameras in special education classrooms.
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