Assessment, Dropout, Elementary and Outcomes

What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In the context of education, prior knowledge acts as a lens through which new concepts are viewed, interpreted, and assimilated, playing a crucial role in shaping learning outcomes, engagement with new material, and the overall educational experience.

Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base Assessment Study Dropout

Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. Distance learning began March 23.

Strategy

Strategy Learning Data Dropout

Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. About the Host.

Policies

Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison

OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. Then, as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Duncan decided to close three low-performing elementary schools. Once again, the story has a happy outcome.

Dropout

Dropout Policies Elementary Data

Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary

Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

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. Instead, she’s surrounded by friends, including elementary-school classmate Rory Williams, who also will be 20 when he graduates.

Analysis

Analysis Report Data Policies

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

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. The dismal outcomes aren’t because students with disabilities can’t handle the coursework. About a third of the students with disabilities who enroll in a four-year college or university graduate within eight years.

Study

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes

High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Throughout her career, Hassan has supported and sponsored bills aimed at improving outcomes for people with disabilities. She said she never got the help she needed or was taught strategies to work on comprehension.

Education

Education Strategy Report Training

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district believes that by making its students feel equal to those in more affluent communities, they will start to see the same outcomes. A new elementary school, Presidential Park, hosts more than 1,000 students in a modern, state-of-the-art building. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout

Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Burnett spends half her time at Alamosa Elementary School, where about one in four students have missed more than 10 percent of school days so far this school year, according to attendance data Burnett tracks.

Elementary

Elementary Learning Report Data

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district believes that by making its students feel equal to those in more affluent communities, they will start to see the same outcomes. A new elementary school, Presidential Park, hosts more than 1,000 students in a modern, state-of-the-art building. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout

Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

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. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

Education

Education Elementary Report Data

The educational value of a black teacher

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

In a 2017 study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers found that low- income black male elementary school students who were paired with a black teacher in the third, fourth, or fifth grades were 39 percent less likely to drop out of high school. Related: Teachers could retire in droves by the time schools reopen.

Education

Education Outcomes Study Assessment

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

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

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.

Elementary

Elementary Report Dropout System

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning. He gave a speech and devoted 150 words to education and choice.

EdTech

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study

If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Partly as a result, educational outcomes for these students are bleak. Like other advocates, she said poor outcomes for students don’t have to be the norm, if only schools would recognize these students’ strengths. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Most of the teens she works with drop out in ninth grade.

Report

Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

Held back, but not helped

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

High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The educational value of a black teacher

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

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

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

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