The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. But by week seven or so of school, the cracks from the past year began to show.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A Harvard study from 2016 sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments in improving education, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring with research-proven instruction was especially effective in increasing the learning rates of low-performing students. So it’s easy for me to show them how to do it, show them my way,” said Obimma.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

And in 2016 just 8 percent of McDowell County residents of working age held an associate degree or higher, compared to 31 percent statewide. In McDowell, educators aren’t reacting to problems, they’re seeking preemptive solutions, trying to stem the tide of generational poverty and trauma.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

For aspiring college students, the summer before freshman year can be a perilous time, as they contend with swelling concerns over how to pay for college, often inscrutable paperwork and uncertainty about whether they belong on a college campus at all. During the summer, she is on her own — though she checks in regularly with her supervisor.

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Training Report Accessibility Study 101

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Working long hours, Boccia — known at Valley High as Mr. Tony — is learning how to run his classroom via trial and error, one day at a time. Indeed, in a 2016 state-by-state assessment that compared student achievement, chances for success and financial investment per student, Nevada ranked last in the nation. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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Training Dropout Report Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

On any given day, he helps students with homework, drives them to the bus station to catch a ride home for the weekend or shows them how to get a refill for a prescription. “A He graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016. A lot of our students, they’ve never done that for themselves,” Lara said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a city that recorded 762 murders in 2016, the most in the nation , security measures like these were authorized years ago for every public high school. A student who failed came away with little understanding of how to improve. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something. Ocon looked for an alternative approach.

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Report Competency Based Learning Common Core System 92

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” “Free College” “How to Pay for Free Community College ,” according to Inside Higher Ed. on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 2 Post at Ed. .”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Since 2016, Rosario has run half a dozen counseling groups of about eight to ten kids. The ideas stemmed from the group’s twice-monthly meetings at the Patchogue library, where they talked about parenting, navigating their new American home, and the schools. Now we can ask for help in Spanish. Before we couldn’t.”.

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Groups Report Meeting Resources 111

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” Edsurge on “How to Protect Education Data When No Systems Are Secure.”

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