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Montgomery County parents ask why hundreds of kids continue to remain on wait-list for in-person learning By Ayesha Khan Some Montgomery County parents have had it with in person learning waiting lists Some parents in Montgomery County are expressing their frustrations as their kids sit on waiting lists for in-person learning. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. - FOX 5 continues to push for answers from local school districts about why hundreds of students are still on lists waiting to get back to in-person learning with just one month left before the school year ends. In Montgomery County for example, more than 300 Montgomery County Public Schools students still remain on a waitlist. ....
In Saturdayâs Irish Times, we publish Dirty Linen: a personal history of Northern Ireland, a revised version of my contribution to The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices, edited by Paul McVeigh, to be published by Unbound in July. Reviews are Diarmaid Ferriter on The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend Louise Kennedy on Real Estate by Deborah Levy; Claire Hennessy on the best new YA fiction; Sarah Moss on Snowflake by Louise Nealon; Paschal Donohoe on Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now Ece Temelkuran; Sarah Gilmartin on The Rules of Revelation by Lisa McInerney; Anna Carey on The Beauty of Impossible Things by Rachel Donohue; Paul Gillespie on State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union by Michael Keating; and Houman Barekast on Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell. ....
U.S. schools fight to keep students amid fear of dropout surge By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press Published: May 11, 2021, 2:30pm Share: 5 Photos A student walks between classes at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kan., on the first day of in-person learning Wednesday, March 30, 2021. The school, like other schools nationwide, has made extra efforts to keep kids at risk of dropping out engaged as classes went virtual due to the pandemic. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Photo Gallery KANSAS CITY, Kan. U.S. educators are doing everything they can to track down high school students who stopped showing up to classes and to help them get the credits needed to graduate, amid an anticipated surge in the country’s dropout rate during the coronavirus pandemic. ....
Schools fear dropout surge amid pandemic Heather Hollingsworth The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. U.S. educators are doing everything they can to track down high school students who stopped showing up to classes and to help them get the credits needed to graduate, amid an anticipated surge in the country’s dropout rate during the pandemic. There isn’t data available yet on how the pandemic has affected the nation’s overall dropout rate 2019 is the last year for which it is available and many school officials say it’s too early to know how many students who stopped logging on for distance learning don’t plan to return. But soaring numbers of students who are failing classes or are chronically ....