The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

He had missed a month and a half of regular classroom instruction, and it was already his second time through the 9th grade. To the right of the computerized door allowing access to the classrooms and living spaces for the students, a sign adorned with a cute Easter duck reads “hello!” Judge Thomas H. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines. They settled on four skills to focus on in the classroom and for students to practice in internships. There’s a pretty distinct difference between a classroom setting and work setting,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. HATHORNE, Mass. — That’s the trade-off students have to make to come here,” O’Toole said.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. The i-Ready Standards Mastery system allows apples-to-apples assessment for grades 2–8 in ELA and math. Reading Eggs ?

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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. Massi, who picked up Javier’s case in 2014, said she helped her deal with tough problems at home.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Two years ago, Nathaniel Albert walked into a first-grade classroom at Andrew H. It’s a rarity to see male teachers in the classroom at all on this floor,” James said. We’re not trying to force anyone into teaching,” said Kristyna Jones, who co-founded BE2T in 2014. Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Wright, a professor of economics at Western Washington University, behavioral assessments of black students in the classroom significantly improve when they have a black teacher rather than a white teacher. She’d walk in the classroom, look at the child and ask, “Are we going to do this today?” White teachers asked, “Oh, Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Students who routinely miss school get individual assessments and attendance success plans geared toward their unique needs and circumstances. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Last year, 23 percent of the school’s third-graders passed the state reading test, up from 0 percent in 2014. She visits every classroom every day, which allows her to get to know the kids and give the teachers immediate feedback. “We The fear we’re going to be closed down isn’t there as much. That was only the beginning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including everything from fractions to negative decimals — in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

And that knowledge, she believes — combined with new strategies to help students regulate their emotions — has contributed to a 43 percent drop in the number of children referred for discipline from 2014 to 2016, according to school data. They use the time to catch up on schoolwork and reflect on their behavior. Progress was swift.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Since 2014 it has added more than 70 employees, including 40 educators and counselors who speak Spanish, according to district officials. Hynes, the district superintendent, was hired in 2014, chosen in part for his “whole-child” approach to education. Related: Eight steps to establish support systems for undocumented students.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The highlight: I visited a school on Friday and met with some wonderful, genuine, sincere teachers who pour their heart and soul into their classrooms and their students and our conversation was not long enough to draw out of them what is limiting them from being even more success from what they are currently. ” Wheee.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng left Baidu , where he’d been since leaving the MOOC startup in 2014. The Ohio Department of Education sought some $80 million in repayment for tuition dollars it gave to the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow after an audit showed that the virtual charter school had overstated its enrollment.

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