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As public school enrollment plummets citywide, hard-hit West Harlem schools work to support students As public school enrollment plummets citywide, hard-hit West Harlem schools work to support students Joao Santos / Staff Photographer As public school enrollment plummets citywide, hard-hit West Harlem schools work to support students In the 2020-21 academic year, New York City’s average decrease in public school enrollment compared to the 2019-20 academic year was approximately 4 percent. For every 50 students that were enrolled in the 2019-20 academic year, two students were not enrol...

Tulsa Public Schools Launches New Effort To Support Struggling Students Tulsa Public Schools announced a new initiative to help struggling students catch up on their coursework and in extracurricular after school projects as well. Tulsa Public Schools is launching a comprehensive set of supports for students, in hopes of recouping some of the educational losses of the last year when students were in distance learning because of the pandemic. The district is expanding connections and financial support for the many nonprofit agencies, like Reading Partners, that work directly with students. Th...

Hundreds of students could be held back a grade in South Carolina It’s been nearly a year since hundreds of thousands of students were forced to start learning virtually because of the pandemic and, while the push has been to get students back face-to-face full time, the learning loss from this past year is apparent. (Source: Live 5/File) By Michal Higdon | February 15, 2021 at 5:27 PM EST - Updated February 17 at 7:30 AM CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - It’s been nearly a year since hundreds of thousands of students were forced to start learning virtually because of the pandemic an...

Calendar to honor Black History Month

Share this: The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Schools are planning extended years, summer programs and tutoring sessions to address Covid-19 reading loss. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report A deluge of data released late last year confirmed what has long been suspected: The coronavirus pandemic caused widespread learning loss while also amplifying gaps across racial and socioeconomic lines.  The situation is especially concernin...