The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

for example, some 1. We appreciate President Joe Biden’s commitment to expanding HBCU funding, but believe that sustaining that effort is just a necessary first step toward creating an equitable, accessible and diverse higher education ecosystem. We also understand that the digital divide isn’t just about access, but also know-how.

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Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. Encouragingly, pioneers are making headway in this work. City Connects has shown strong results. The program also benefits teachers. Outcomes are encouraging.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1 This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times. It turns into a self-sustaining way of dealing with this debt,” Thompson said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. We have to make space for them to access the content.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Since few states require that students be given access to class material they miss because of a suspension, keeping them in school in the first place is the only way to guarantee they have a chance to learn. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. 1 request wasn’t about academics but access to mental health services. And 52 of the district’s 59 buildings provide in-school access to mental health services. I may have three out of 10 kids doing well,” he said as an example. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Dedecker said the No.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In the civil rights era, Greenville, Mississippi was the model of desegregation for the nation, a shining example held up by the famous Coleman Report of a community doing it the right way. But the DOJ could hold Starkville accountable for student achievement gaps — on test scores, for example, or graduation rates — if it wanted to.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. This year, Collier will run a training with wellness teachers before school starts to make sure the course is accessible to ELL students. What changes are ahead? Much of Barela’s vision will remain.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 82

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. For years, it was a battle getting Guadalupe to his Phoenix elementary school in the Washington Elementary School District. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. This year, Collier will run a training with wellness teachers before school starts to make sure the course is accessible to ELL students. What changes are ahead? Much of Barela’s vision will remain.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. When the kids are academically on target, for example, you don’t want them to lose that momentum, and we allow [virtual] as an option.” It just depends. Louis, in the spring of 2022.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. Valente’ Gibson , fifth grade teacher at Jackson Creek Elementary School. Evan Garner , father of three and rector of St.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. One such example is a remedial high school program in Israel, now defunct, that gave thousands of disadvantaged and lower achieving 16- and 17-year-olds after-school instruction in small groups, similar to tutoring.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

But access to home support is arguably even more important. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

In a June 2022 report , the department said it had deleted the term “equity” from the title of a report about equitable access to qualified teachers for low-income and minority students. The former School and Educator Equity Report is now called Rates of Access to Qualified Teachers.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Of those, only a handful require instruction on how to use or access contraception, according to data gathered by SIECUS , an organization that promotes comprehensive sexual health education policies. The school does not offer parenting classes, for example, which, when done well , have been shown to help new moms and their children.

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Kaplan Report Policies Laptops 114

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Part of the disparity starts in home countries where access to education is often limited. In Guatemala and El Salvador, around a quarter of students don’t even make it through elementary school, according to the World Bank, while in Honduras, about 17 percent of children don’t get past primary school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Students at Lovett Elementary in Clinton, Miss. By earlier accounts , this program helped lower the number of high school “dropout factories” with increased graduation rates and boosted test scores in about two-thirds of the schools in the program. work on laptops during class. Photo: Jackie Mader. Break down barriers.

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System Dropout Instructional Materials Strategy 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 82

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. Black students make up 44 percent of the state’s elementary, middle and high school classes, but only 17 percent of the students who won the scholarship last year were black. Only 16 percent had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher.

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Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 86

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Some of the reasons for the decrease include teens waiting longer to have sex, increased access to contraception and popular reality TV shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which depicted the struggles of young moms. But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 137