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OPINION: This high-poverty district learned to think differently about teaching and learning

The Hechinger Report

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. In 2006-07, St. From 2006 to 2016, St. Related: Can schools create gifted students? “Credit recovery” for struggling learners.

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Chronically absent: Is quality education possible in juvenile detention in Mississippi?

The Hechinger Report

Rankin County Youth Court Judge Thomas Broome told the Jackson Free Press with some pain that before 2006, juvenile-detention centers in the state didn’t have to have school. Related: Dropouts try to find their way back to school. Detention almost always has a negative impact on the education of young people.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Louisiana had long erred on the side of social promotion, often passing underachievers through school despite low reading and math levels.

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Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools

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UNESCO reports that the market for pre-primary, primary and secondary education worldwide expanded by more than 142 million students between 1999 and 2006. School administrators should continuously assess teaching conditions, principals should focus on “high-quality teaching and learning conditions.”

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

Suspension rates nearly doubled between 1973 and 2006. These include study skills, guided reflections and personality assessments to encourage students to identify their strengths. Burman said he wants students to have “a good experience,” but that “we didn’t want it to be a glorified study hall or ‘Breakfast Club.’ ”.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

The island has faced corruption and mismanagement in local government, billions of dollars in debt and mass emigration that has caused a critical loss of professionals and essentially halved the island’s student population in 15 years, from almost 550,000 in 2006 to 276,413 in 2021. On the math test that children all over the U.S.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt.