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STUDENT VOICE: Black boys need the guidance and mentorship of black male teachers

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

This historical tension of not feeling wanted or valued by the educational system is understandable. Studies show that the effect of having a black male teacher, especially between grades 3 and 5, decreases the dropout rate among black male students by 30 percent and increases the likelihood of black students aspiring to higher education.

Dropout

Dropout Advocacy Report Elementary

Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

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. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

Dropout

Dropout Policies Data Report

For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Credit: Bianca Vázquez Toness/Associated Press “This was about balancing the number of students in schools,” says Tiffany Fick, director of school quality and advocacy for Equity in Education, a policy organization in Atlanta. Communities such as St.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary

Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. And I think sometimes that when we see the final product of a school, or a teacher, or a school system that looks really good and has been done really well, it feels insurmountable… Vicki: It does. Vicki: (laughs). Do Something.

Dropout

Dropout Company Twitter Maker Movement

Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The homework gap isn’t new. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey

How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

Study

Study Data Report Elementary

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

Dropout

Dropout Report Accessibility Study

The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines.

Study

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes

When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Totals for the full public school population are likely much higher, given that almost 250 school systems failed to produce comprehensive data — or any data at all — under Arizona public records law. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates.

Dropout

Dropout Analysis Policies Report

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We Students risk getting stuck in deficient online programs for weeks or even months without the support they need and falling behind in their academics.

Handbook

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data

5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. “Never in the modern history of our education system has the importance of family engagement been more apparent,” says Alejandro Gibes de Gac, the founder of Springboard Collaborative.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting

Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core

Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

Education

Education Elementary Data Dropout

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

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.”.

Education

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System

The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary

‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. I signed the paper.”.

Elementary

Elementary Handbook Report Policies

A new test that no student would dread — one that leads to citizenship

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

He is a member of the Latino education advocacy group Nuestra Voz and a student at Cohen College Prep in New Orleans. Doe that public elementary and secondary schools couldn’t consider immigration status when a student seeks to enroll. Schools are the best naturalization system we have. The 1982 U.S.

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Advocacy Secondary System Report

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STUDENT VOICE: Black boys need the guidance and mentorship of black male teachers

Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles

Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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

The messy reality of personalized learning

‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

A new test that no student would dread — one that leads to citizenship

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