The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. EVERETT, Wash. — Sara Stevens teaches a lesson to her kindergarteners.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. At the vast majority of for-profits that focus on certificates, most students who take on debt to attend end up earning less than the typical high school graduate, according to federal data posted by the Department of Education and analyzed by The Hechinger Report. . It didn’t.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. The post Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. Since 62 percent of 2-year-olds had working mothers in 2016, according to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. The reading skills of the nation’s eighth-graders rose slightly, but their math skills did not.

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Education Common Core Report Academic Standards 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. ” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2016

” The final accountability ratings for the 2015-2016 school year reflect a new scoring system MDE put in place in September. “Superintendents, principals and teachers have all worked diligently to implement higher academic standards and help students achieve better outcomes. . Most school districts are a B, C or D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Research found that a $3.5

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Dropout Secondary Data Report 78

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The new policy stands to degrade academic standards and exclude students based on race, she argued, calling it “a backdoor attempt to dismantle the exam school system altogether.” ” “We believe there is no tension between diversity and academic excellence,” he said.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system. But we do.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

A report published in January suggests that most software licenses purchased go unused. In early 2016, it launched Co-Pilot to give schools free 30-day trials of edtech software built by other companies. The goal is to “support teachers in finding new tools, while also making them as easy and safe to use as possible.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Nationwide, about 65 percent of public high schools reported offering opportunities for students to participate in work-based learning during the 2007-08 school year, the last year data on the topic was collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Duxbury, Vt. —

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Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 87

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2016

A Hechinger Report and Clarion-Ledger review of state records of 471 unannounced visits to child care centers in central Mississippi from February 2013 to December 2014, revealed directors were not present when licensing officials arrived at least 24 percent of the time.

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Survey Report Training Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

That was in January 2016. In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. A tainted batch of heroin hit the streets in January 2016, causing 40 overdoses in just two days. Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. For over ten years, districts across the U.S. educational policy: College and Career Readiness.

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Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss said she avoids outdated book report questions and formats. In addition to their focus on reading, library teachers are responsible for promoting information and digital literacies, which help democratize academic standards and provide students access to learning resources otherwise unavailable.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 96

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education. Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. Convention coverage. There was, however, one moment of discord.

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Education Policies Common Core Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. percent of white students graduated ready for college English and math in 2016, according to state data, compared with a dismal 23 percent of Hispanic students and 16 percent of black students.

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