The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

If we did in health care what we do in education, we’d say this to everyone who walks through the hospital door: “We prescribe the same treatment for everyone. Equal treatment will not enable us to reach the nation’s professed objective of educating all children for success. Getty Images. We’ve always done this.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Chart from the website of the National Center for Education Statistics. Condition of Education. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.) Characteristics of Public School Teachers.

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Dropout Course Analysis Training 126

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

For example, at energy companies, data scientists help reduce costs, maximize investments and improve public safety. These are just a few examples — from only one part of the economy — of the range of career opportunities the IT sector has to offer. It has long been clear that IT jobs aren’t just for Silicon Valley.

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Training Dropout STEM Company 119

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Take, for example, the growing interest in Attendance Works’ services.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 189

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. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 110

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There we got the chance to learn what was on the hearts and minds of educators—some who are just beginning their personalized learning journey and others grappling with new challenges that have emerged from years of implementation. Sand Creek High School in Colorado Springs, for example, began its 1:1 initiative this year.

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Personalized Learning iLearn Learning Dropout 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The disparity serves as an extreme example of similar trends across the United States, where the children of higher-income families go to better colleges than those from lower-income ones. That’s about 2 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 113

MindShift

JANUARY 11, 2019

Public education has a persistent and well-documented issue: the achievement gap between white students and students of color. According to the results, black students who have just one black teacher in elementary school are 13 percent more likely to enroll in college than their peers who didn’t have any black teachers.

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Dropout Elementary Study Analysis 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement. by TeachThought Staff. From a press release. COLUMBIA, Mo.

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Student Engagement Dropout Elementary Data 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

A lot of people will need more education to get back into the workforce, and they’ll need to get it quickly, at the lowest possible cost and in subjects directly relevant to available jobs. Related: Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future. People are looking for shorter forms of learning during this time.

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Industry Dropout Pearson Report 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

One example is Seattle’s Teen Link , a free phone line established in the 1990s that has since expanded to online chat and text messaging. The pilot program trains 11th and 12th grade students to do basic interventions — helping with schoolwork planning and navigating new social dynamics — to reduce the risk of dropouts.

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Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 101

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. for example, some 1. for example, some 1. It has amplified HBCUs’ underfunding by putting new strains on education budgets. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Across the U.S.,

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Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 144

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. percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

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Learning Dropout Report Elementary 112

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Miriam Rollin, director of the Education Civil Rights Alliance, a collaborative convened by the National Center for Youth Law, saw the influx in federal dollars for Covid relief as an opportunity to make schools more supportive for students. Before the pandemic, she trained educators working with children who live in violent communities.

Personalized Learning 138

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronic absenteeism emerged as a top indicator that affects students’ educational experiences. Research illuminates its impact: Elementary school students who miss 10% of school show weaker social skills development, lower reading ability, and higher grade-retention rates. Evidence-Based Solutions Examples. Join the Community.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Allison Socol, The Education Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 144

edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear. Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages.

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Differentiated Instruction Secondary Advocacy Dropout 44

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Like a handful of states, New Hampshire is taking the opportunity provided by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to revise its accountability measures to further individualize education. Claire Voorhees, national policy director, Foundation for Excellence in Education. Parents saw curriculums narrowing.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 74

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. Higher Education. Education officials also cite the counseling and mental-health services the school receives from a handful of local organizations. “It

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. One example was in the late ’90s and the early ’00s was the tough on discipline era — zero tolerance. Last time, they were suffering. Okay, great.

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System Case Study Course Examples 59

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Their schools were crumbling and had twice been taken over by the Mississippi State Board of Education for failing to provide students with an adequate education. It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. Another time. Fifty years later, have they succeeded?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

This nearly majority-Latino city began its experiment with personalized learning three years ago, after a districtwide survey revealed that thousands of high schoolers felt their education wasn’t relevant. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. Their positions were created by and are funded through Say Yes to Education Buffalo, a local chapter of a New York City-based nonprofit. In Buffalo, a Rust Belt city still grappling with high poverty and an under-educated population , the results of the Say Yes program have exceeded expectations.

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Data Secondary System Accessibility 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. million public school students.

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Dropout Analysis Policies Report 103

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Anna Phelan , kindergarten teacher at Overbrook Educational Center in Philadelphia. It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. I think the oldest of my children, whose education was synchronous … fell behind substantially less than the others.

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Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 143

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. Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online. It just depends.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

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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Dropout Study Groups Report 121

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of educating parents about the importance of attendance. Higher Education. This is only the second year Alamosa Elementary has been tracking attendance student by student.

Elementary 94

Elementary Learning Report Data 94

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

American education has long been full of innovators practicing alternatives to the mainstream. “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. Virtual learning will continue.

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Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2018

New York City’s schools are among the most segregated in the nation, and at every level of the city’s education bureaucracy, policies and procedures may be preventing integration. For example, middle schools in many parts of the city are allowed to “screen” their students.

System 48

System Elementary Policies Report 48

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

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. Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education nonprofit The Learning Accelerator. We know how education reform is. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The scientists studying genetic markers in education are trying to untangle how nature and nurture together explain school performance. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t worried about it — and about the other ways this research could exacerbate inequities in education. Gifted Education’s Race Problem.

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Data Study Assessment Report 60

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