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Summer School Offers Kids A Last Chance To Catch Up Before New School Year - Honolulu Civil Beat
Summer School Offers Kids A ‘Last Chance’ To Catch Up Before New School Year
Federal relief money enabled Hawaii to offer summer school for free this year to help students overcome pandemic-related setbacks. Reading time: 8 minutes.
As Hawaii’s schools prepare to fully reopen in the fall, the pressure is on for educators to bolster kids’ academic and social skills to make up for a disrupted and truncated school year that left many students struggling with their studies and mental health.
That means no rest for many public school administrators and teachers who will be offering summer school for free to students for the first time thanks to federal relief dollars aimed at stemming the learning loss and making sure kids are ready to get back to the classroom.
May 10, 2021
Many students at Farrington High have fallen behind academically as the school year comes to an end after months of online learning and pandemic-related disruptions.
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Just down the road, students at Honolulu Community College need jobs and experience.
The two Kalihi institutions decided to join forces by having the college students serve as tutors for the high schoolers in one of several initiatives aimed at helping Hawaii s youth catch up so the next school year can get off to a strong start.
Subscribe We know that high dosage tutoring is a really effective intervention, said Alex Harris, vice president of programs at Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, which is funding the project. We know efforts like ours can help hundreds of kids, but (in) the state of where we are, we need to be helping tens of thousands of kids, and the only way to do that is a concerted public focus.
How One Hawaii Foundation Is Helping Build A Local Tutor Pipeline For Schools - Honolulu Civil Beat
How One Hawaii Foundation Is Helping Build A Local Tutor Pipeline For Schools
A disrupted academic year has caused many high school students to fall behind. A new partnership will connect them to local college students to help them catch up. Reading time: 8 minutes.
Many students at Farrington High have fallen behind academically as the school year comes to an end after months of online learning and pandemic-related disruptions.
Just down the road, students at Honolulu Community College need jobs and experience.
The two Kalihi institutions decided to join forces by having the college students serve as tutors for the high schoolers in one of several initiatives aimed at helping Hawaii’s youth catch up so the next school year can get off to a strong start.
R.I.P. Ben Aipa (1942-2021)
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When Ben Aipa’s big heart finally stopped beating on Friday, January 15th after the man succumbed to multiple health issues including heart problems, diabetes, strokes and dementia, the surfing world lost one of its most remarkable characters and in some ways, one of its least-appreciated. Not due to any lack of respect. Ben commanded respect without even asking for it, from the moment he first took to the waves at Waikiki as a burly 23-year-old. But he wasn’t exactly shy. No other three-letter athlete from Farrington High, semi-pro football player and blue-collar truck driver could get by without occasionally puffing a few lips let alone learn to surf in Hawaii as a full-fledged adult.