Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While this approach found some success in reducing the dropout rate of students who participated, there were no measurable improvements in achievement. At the time, teachers wondered if students were really learning or just remembering long enough to get the reward.

EdTech 218

EdTech Learning Blended Learning Dropout 218

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. If the past few years have taught us anything,” Taylor said of the pandemic and its aftermath, “it is that regular in-person learning is critical to a student’s academic success.”.

Dropout 101

Dropout Analysis Policies Report 101

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When schools shifted to remote learning in 2020, Superintendent Stephanie Downey Toledo watched another crisis unfolding. From the beginning, Rubin and Toledo agreed that the program would have a community-wide impact in this town, where the median household income was just $34,689 in 2020. They need a mentor.”.

Learning 85

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 85

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online. “Instead of taking traditional or legal pathways,” she said, “there’s a pattern that the easiest solution is to remove a student rather than deal with the underlying issues.”

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

When sports practices were abruptly canceled at his school on March 12, 2020, Michael Liao, then 17, started to worry how much the pandemic would affect his school – and particularly his upcoming theater performance. The next morning, he woke to an email announcing that in-person classes would be canceled for the foreseeable future.

Report 113

Report Survey Meeting Study 113

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. For fall 2020, the parents of 403 children applied to Olmsted’s elementary gifted program and 39 to Eve’s, according to data the district provided. The National Association for Gifted Children defines its target group as kids whose “ability is significantly above the norm for their age.”

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The new Vaux welcomed its first class of 126 ninth-graders in September; it plans to serve 504 students by 2020. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision. All of its current students reside in North Philadelphia; more than three-quarters are supported by public housing.

Report 79

Report Digital Divide Groups Social Media 79

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

She was 8 in January 2020, when earthquakes rocked the island, closing her school for three months while engineers inspected its physical structures to make sure they were safe for students to return. Like more than 260 other schools across Puerto Rico with low enrollment, it was closed permanently as part of wider cost cutting measures.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 104

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

per 1,000 in 2020. For example, the Pregnancy Assistance Fund, a $25 million federal grant program that supported services for young parents so they could finish school, ended in 2020. There were almost 160,000 births to 15- to 19-year-olds in 2020. In 1991, there were 61.8 That’s a 75 percent drop.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 134

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020. Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out. This deference to parental preference is a common response from officials at schools that use corporal punishment.

Elementary 144

Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144