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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. It wasn’t always this way.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. But to the parents, it’s worth it.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests. Then, like millions of other students across the country, Hernandez was forced to shift to learning online. The students were also often distracted — trying to learn while grappling with health, financial and family stressors.

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” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” Via The Atlantic : “The STEM Superhero of Sesame Street.” ” We’ve reached “ Flipped Learning 3.0 ,” so that’s exciting. Saint Francis High School invested $15,000 in the company back in 2012.

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Teachers are first responders to the opioid crisis

The Hechinger Report

Many of these details are ones that, after 15 years in the classroom, Cruey has learned to pick up on, through careful tracking: what students are wearing, hunger levels and emotional states. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”.

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak.

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

The Hechinger Report

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. There are gifted dropouts. lets them play learning games on the computer and “sometimes she gives us her phone,” King said. “We We get to do fun things,” Kaiden said, chewing.

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