The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

When Kylie Jones brings home her report card, it doesn’t have any A’s, B’s or C’s. It definitely makes you feel like you’re not failing, you’re not behind; you just have certain things that you’re not strong in. Students are now assessed based on their “habits of scholarship” in addition to their mastery of course standards.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult,” he said.

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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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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

He got a 20 out of 100 points on the first big assessment. At the end of the unit, he aced a final assessment with 100 out of 100 points. All that effort at the end and he only got an average of 60 percent in summative assessments. But it was too little too late. Let's look back at the 82% conundrum.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

I definitely would have struggled [in algebra] if I didn’t have to go through the process of re-taking.”. Erika Stump , a research associate at the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research and Evaluation at the University of Southern Maine, has written seven reports on proficiency-based education in the state.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2019

If you’re not convinced of the importance of SEL, here’s what students say: “Students and young adults believe SEL schools would create a more positive social and learning environment” — report by the Collaboration for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Why teach SEL in schools? SEL exercises.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Members of the NAACP and an advocacy organization called Oakland REACH , started by Oakland parents whose kids attend the district’s lowest performing schools, have coalesced around a campaign for better reading instruction they’re calling Literacy for All. Continuing Advocacy. Despite her efforts all four are behind in reading. .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Black, Hispanic and Native American first-year students showed even steeper drops in a November report, between 28 and 29 percent. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Alamo also waived fees for the assessment test that first-time students lacking ACT or SAT scores must take.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” Because “adopting OER” must by definition mean something else to Stephen, I can understand why he feels like there is no evidence for such a claim. I settled on OER-enabled pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. There’s no definitive data on how colleges’ relationships with these companies affect the cost of the programs — which include MBAs, master’s in public health, master’s in social work and more — to students.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

It includes a variety of assessments, multiple-choice and claim-evidence-reasoning assessments, along with extensive support for teachers such as embedded professional development and instructional resources to support a differentiated learning experience for each student. to streamline workflows for assessment and data analysis.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

To offset all this double counting, there is the separate issue of the many “whole course” OER that OTL refuses to index because they don’t meet the OTL’s definition of “textbook.” assessment banks, assignments, online homework tools).) The Linux Foundation issues an annual report about activities related to kernel development.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

” “ Assessing Social-Emotional Skills Can Be Fuzzy Work; SELweb Offers Concrete Data.” ” “ Panorama’s Student Progress Reports Show More Than Grades (Think Behavior and SEL).” For its part, Edsurge pushed hard with its marketing of SEL in 2017: “ Want Social-Emotional Learning to Work?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade. Her students seemed less ambivalent.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

In fact, reported the presenters, integration resulted in educational inequities along with a decline in Black cultural identity and the disappearance of Black educators. Those things are intentional and are things we can definitely correct within the system.”. The Construct of True Anti-Racist Education. early childhood education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Photo: Caroline Preston / The Hechinger Report. School employees in most states have a legal obligation to report any suspicion of abuse and neglect, and they can play a critical role in helping keep children out of harm’s way. But even some former child welfare officials say the practice isn’t as rare as they’d like. “If

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched. Most, but not all, reported an absence of the sort of therapeutic benefit implied by the program’s name. Whether the Trump administration will approach the case differently is unclear.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning,” according to some definitions, is driven by students’ own interests and inquiry rather than by the demands or standards imposed by the instructor, the school, the state. ” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

“ Lights go out at Education Department headquarters – and may stay off for some time,” The Washington Post reports. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to push ahead with his nomination today, despite the numerous reports now about Brett Kavanaugh ’s history of drunkenness and alleged sexual assault.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Credit: Joan Morse for The Hechinger Report “It’s going to be a battle,” she said at the table. Buildings are infrequently cleaned; an elementary school principal reported at an October school board meeting that mice were running over children’s feet and hallways smelled of urine. The policy ended up passing 4-0.

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Elementary Report Meeting Policies 135

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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