From staff reports
HAMMONDSVILLE Edison Local Schools are moving forward in its plan to review chronic absenteeism and post-secondary pursuits.
Superintendent Bill Beattie said a panel of district and high school administrators, career readiness and truancy officials recently met to discuss the next level in its initiative through Harvard University which uses the Proving Ground model of evidence-based improvement to address chronic absenteeism, career readiness and college enrollment.
Edison is among 50 rural schools in Ohio and New York that are part of the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks, an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard, and the study is funded by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
From staff reports
HAMMONDSVILLE The Edison Local School District is looking to reduce chronic absenteeism and is seeing some positive results with the addition of a new truancy officer.
School board members approved the hiring of Anthony Pierro during the Feb. 25 regular meeting, but his contract is retroactive to Feb. 1. Superintendent Bill Beattie said Pierro’s presence already has yielded improvements among student attendance and leaders want to maintain the momentum.
“We’ve been monitoring our chronic absenteeism since the beginning of October and there’s so much responsibility on the principals, guidance counselors and SRO’s, so the board made a commitment to hire someone to handle absenteeism in the district,” Beattie said.
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Packaged books for students learning remotely are left on a table outside Oakdale Elementary School in Brandon, Mississippi. In rural school districts nationwide, educators are coming up with creative solutions to internet connectivity issues and detachment among students. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Kayden Rosebur’s first year of high school didn’t go as she expected. Instead of meeting new friends and dashing through the hallways between bells, the 15-year-old joins her classmates remotely from her house in the rural Mississippi Delta. Her unstable internet service keeps her disconnected.
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‘It’s Patchwork’: Rural Teachers Struggle to Connect in Pandemic
Packaged books for students learning remotely are left on a table outside Oakdale Elementary School in Brandon, Mississippi. In rural school districts nationwide, educators are coming up with creative solutions to internet connectivity issues and detachment among students.
Rogelio V. Solis
The Associated Press
CLARKSDALE, Miss. Kayden Rosebur’s first year of high school didn’t go as she expected. Instead of meeting new friends and dashing through the hallways between bells, the 15-year-old joins her classmates remotely from her house in the rural Mississippi Delta. Her unstable internet service keeps her disconnected.
McClain partners with Harvard
By Angela Shepherd - For The Times-Gazette
McClain High School will collaborate with Harvard University to research and improve student attendance and college and career readiness, McClain Principal Matt Shelton reported at the Greenfield Exempted Village School District (GEVSD) Board of Education’s last regular meeting of the year.
The collaboration will begin in January.
The Harvard program, National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN), is a partnership with McClain High School for the next four years to provide specific interventions that address student attendance and college and career readiness.
The collaboration came about when one of Shelton’s doctorate program classmates began conducting rural education research for Harvard University.