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Many states picked diploma pathways over high school exit exams. Did students benefit?

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Brito’s experience is what state education leaders hoped for when they replaced the high school exit exam with multiple pathways to graduation. That’s similar to the share of students who didn’t graduate on time in 2019, the final year of the exit exam. Some students relied on pandemic-era waivers that don’t exist anymore.

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Five ways school leaders can end the year on a strong note

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Topics could include new teaching strategies, technology integration, or stress management techniques. Well-being resources : Encourage self-care by providing resources such as access to counseling services, wellness programs, or relaxation spaces within the school. Consider organizing wellness days or retreats.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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In our current educational landscape, you have to either receive a traditional high school diploma or pass the General Educational Development exam to access most postsecondary schooling options, including trade schools and community colleges. Will it diminish or overshadow the other myriad accomplishments they have achieved?

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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

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Getting good grades on AP exams is associated with higher GPAs in high school and success in college, but the research tends to be correlational rather than causational. In 2008, a little over 180,000 students took three or more AP exams. AP courses and exams also raise complex issues of equity.

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17 Hero Awards finalists demonstrate their commitment to education

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With no school counseling team — and teachers weary from other new programs and systems — EPIC needed a partner it could trust to serve Tier 2 students. Based on this need, Aurora Public Schools was in the implementation stage when the Director of Mental Health and Counseling unexpectedly had to take a leave of absence.

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This District Helps Young Kids Identify Their Interests — and Ideal Careers

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She was teaching fourth grade when a new integrated curriculum focused on careers was introduced district-wide—and it was making her lessons more relevant to the real world. It’s here that Brandt teaches, at the Cajon Valley Union School District, which serves about 16,000 students through eighth grade.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time. It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time.”