The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. There were challenges: Teachers found it difficult to squeeze in the meetings with academics and some found the activities occasionally contrived and repetitive.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Experts estimate that up to 90 percent of students with disabilities can graduate high school meeting the same academic expectations as their peers. Rachel’s elementary school was part of Shelby County Schools. She fought for years and went to court to stop her district from giving her daughter certain assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. His mother fought the decision, and he graduated from his Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Oktibbeha County really didn’t have the resources to meet state standards,” said Walter Conley, the former superintendent of Oktibbeha County School District. Every fall, each student is tested to assess any gaps in skills and knowledge. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. One of the most common statements I heard when I was meeting with all the stakeholders,” Dedecker said, “was ‘This will never work here.’ At the outset a survey was conducted to assess the needs of schools, families and communities. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Because people just didn’t get along.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

This week marks one year since an unspeakable act of violence was carried out in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. One year since a gunman stole the lives of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. We did meet with some counselors from Sandy Hook to get some guidance from their experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Experts estimate that up to 90 percent should be able to graduate high school meeting the same standards as general education students, ready to succeed in college and careers. Districts recognized the need to assess how the student would do in college or work or the community and then provide services in accordance with what they find.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. I meet with teachers twice a week, and every day I push in a class or pull kids out depending on what they’re doing in class. Valente’ Gibson , fifth grade teacher at Jackson Creek Elementary School. Valente’ Gibson, Columbia, South Carolina.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. There are gifted dropouts. He proposed a Venn diagram: Giftedness is where creativity, above-average ability and commitment to completing a task meet. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. She didn’t feel motivated at school, cutting class to meet with her boyfriend, usually to smoke pot.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Our elementary and middle schools utilize i-Ready diagnostics to form enrichment and intervention groups,” says Dr. Julia Lamons, assessment supervisor at Greene County Schools. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

In pre-pandemic times, it offered a series of hourlong workshops to family members, mostly in low-income communities, coaching them to set goals and practice specific reading concepts with elementary school-age children. Use online systems to assess, remediate and individualize learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

BE2T exists to meet these two needs. Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. I had it real bad,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. 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

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. Both parents figured Caleb would return to his neighborhood elementary school before too long. “We Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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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 101

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

From there, during each weekly meeting in a conference room a few doors down from the principal’s office in this sprawling high school of nearly 2,500 kids, the students dig deeper and deeper into the traumas that haunt them — nightmares about sinking into muddy rivers, or being lost in the pitch-black of the desert night.

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