The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. System leaders don’t dispute that assessment. High cost of dropping out.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 69

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” It’s not entirely a rosy account.

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MOOC Coursera Education Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. All students need to be deeply known by the adults that are working with them to support their learning,” she said. Based on what you know.

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Dropout Policies Report Course 94

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

A program called I-BEST that helps students who come into college lacking basic skills (science, math) learn those skills in conjunction with a degree program; without this, they’d have to go into some sort of remedial program before taking the degree-granting class. I’m an assessment instructor,” Mosser said.

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Industry Training Report Course 70

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Teachers Know Best, 2015 Report Ebook platforms can provide scaffolding that English language learners need, such as audio enhancements and highlighting features that help support the reluctant readers.

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Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Kayla Patrick, an author of the National Women’s Law Center report “Let Her Learn.”. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Dropout Policies Report System 54

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back.

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Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning. Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

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Personalized Learning Education Khan Academy Elementary 95

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. In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 121

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

These children made up less than 2 percent of public school students in every state during the 2015-2016 school year. She fought for years and went to court to stop her district from giving her daughter certain assessments. But parents and advocates say that other 10 percent are often assumed to be less capable than they are.

Education 81

Education Assessment Report Resources 81

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” Related: Tipping point: Can summit put personalized learning over the top? But the University of Maine at Presque Isle (or UMPI) is one of the first public universities in the nation to use proficiency-based learning. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

Pearson 83

Pearson Personalized Learning Report Course 83

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Only, rather than sending health care or social service providers to support parents and assess young children’s readiness for school, McDowell is sending teachers directly to kids’ homes — including high schoolers’ — to counsel, persuade and cajole them to graduate on time and plan for their future.

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Report Elementary Study Conference 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

To her left, Makayla offered: “My sunshine share is the part where we learned about oak trees.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. And yet, the increased popularity of social-emotional learning has given rise to concern about ineffective, or even harmful, curricula entering schools. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Strategy Training Report Company 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It includes students with specific learning disabilities (such as dyslexia and dysgraphia), hearing and vision impairments, emotional disabilities, autism and more severe cognitive delays. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. Weekly Update.

Education 110

Education Strategy Report Training 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school. Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. Eventually, he dropped out too.

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Report Course System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. This work really takes everyone,” said Daphne Strader, Albuquerque Public Schools’ director of coordinated school health, who works to reduce various barriers to learning, including frequent absenteeism. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Elementary Learning Report Data 90

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. Nationally, 3.3

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 136

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. Enrollment skyrocketed to nearly 300 students.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

If this is our chance to reimagine schools , remembering this history and prioritizing the protection of the black teaching force will be essential to create better places for black students to learn. According to 2015 research by Adam C.

Education 145

Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

So in the fall of 2015, P.S. 67 began the year with yet another new principal, this time as part of the city’s “Renewal” program, a last-ditch effort to rescue failing schools. We try to help decrease the stresses and remove the barriers to learning,” said Bar-Zemer. “In By a stroke of rare good luck, their shotgun relationship worked.

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Groups Meeting Examples Classroom 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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. Both brothers earned good grades, but Albert said he “didn’t really like learning.”.

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Report Elementary Secondary Classroom 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

And they’re shocked that we’re actually busy learning stuff,” he said, tidying up his classroom after getting his last students onto the afternoon bus headed for home. Boccia’s classroom walls are decorated with colorful posters of the subjects his students are learning about: the solar system, maps of the world, nouns and verbs.

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Training Dropout Report Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 98

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. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Classrooms were off a hallway with locked doors at both ends.

Education 79

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

She was a high school junior when she learned she was pregnant, and didn’t receive the support she needed from school officials to continue. The teens learn how to apply for their birth certificates and get a driver’s license or social security card. LaTavia BigBack, 21, with her daughter. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 130

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. What might be the elements of the MOOC revolution? You can’t expect any help from the inhabitants.”

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 56