The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Credit: Patricia Kühfuss for The Hechinger Report Neriman is taking part in Kein Abschluss ohne Anschluss (KAoA) — or “no graduation without connection” — a program that has been rolled out across the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia to help students better plan for their futures. You have to experience it.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2024

That’s likely little comfort to students who attend or have attended closing schools. Tatiana Hicks was at her laptop preparing for her final exams in the nursing program she attended at for-profit Stratford University in Virginia when her group chat with fellow students started to blow up. Students attending ITT Tech had $1.1

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The report examines the needs and inequities affecting 9.5 million students attending public schools in rural areas – more than one in five students nationally. The report critically examines how educational supports and resources for rural student well-being are distributed. “For Similarly, 10.6 In contrast, 64.8

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Prior to the pandemic, at-home and virtual learning were mainly reserved for homeschooled children or those with medical conditions that prevented them from attending a traditional school. There was no shortage of challenges that schools, families, staff, and students faced as they navigated the new world of remote learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Back when my mom attended Westwood in the early 80s, students made the typical walk from class to class, learning from one teacher in math and another for English or history or science. (My More schools say yes to team teaching appeared first on The Hechinger Report. My mom was one of two girls in Westwood’s woodworking class.)

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2024

Malvern, PA – Frontline Education , a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, today announced the release of its inaugural “K-12 Lens: A Survey Report from Frontline Education.” The report presents key data and insights related to each critical opportunity.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The students who attend the school go home to shelters, motels or even cars, DeVries says. She also pointed to a research study conducted by the school — with The Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education at the University of San Diego — that reported greater feelings of belonging and self-esteem among students. The school says yes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2024

Our colleague at The Hechinger Report, Fazil Khan, died February 23. This is not a ‘toilet training’ issue and it should not preclude a child from attending school,” Brown said. This year, 77 percent attend full-day kindergarten. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Specifically, potty training.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Fazil Khan got in just under the wire when he applied for a data reporter job at The Hechinger Report in the summer of 2022. No more than two weeks after he was hired, he burrowed into a project uncovering Arizona’s habit of handing out long suspensions for attendance violations , often derailing students’ academic progress. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Pandemic-related school closures wreaked havoc on attendance. This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Esports is the new “hook” to keep students working in other subjects despite being remote or partially physically attending schools in some sort of hybrid schedule. Miles Harvey, 8th Grade Video Game-Based Learning and Esports Coach, Albuquerque Public Schools and Luke Stebick, Account Executive at TIG.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

To attend ourBRIDGE for Kids, students need to meet one simple requirement — they must attend classes during the regular school day before arriving. Before 2020, the school attendance rate for English language learners across the country was high. It increased existing inequities around students attending schools,” Childs said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. Many teachers factor in attendance, participation and effort in calculating a final grade. grade points from 3.02

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The findings from YouScience’s second annual national 2023 Post-Graduation Readiness Report. Key findings of the report include: The decision to pursue alternative postsecondary options hints at an evolving postsecondary landscape. Thirty-four percent of those who graduated from 2020-22 expressed similar uncertainty.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The Chatfield College campus. The college has now closed.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Hybrid classes Before COVID, remote learning was an option for college students who couldn’t attend classes in person. Online and offline learning were two distinct systems: one was entirely remote, while the other was in-person and attendance-based. Both teachers and students who have health issues can safely attend class.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Hedy Chang, executive director of Attendance Works, a nonprofit that combats chronic absenteeism, said that early research indicates that telehealth can improve attendance. The post An unexpected way to fight chronic absenteeism appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

(I’m not identifying the district because a researcher who studied its efforts to boost attendance agreed to keep it anonymous in exchange for sharing the outcomes with the public.) Yet nearly half of the district’s students weren’t attending school regularly during the 2020-21 year, either in person or remotely.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In San Diego, by some estimates the most expensive area in the entire country and a common vacation destination, about one-tenth of people live in poverty, according to a report from a grantmaker, the San Diego Foundation, published in late October. Poway runs attendance reports and investigates why students aren’t showing up.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2023

And 58 percent of online-only students reported that they never discuss their classes with instructors outside of class time, compared to 43 percent of those who take at least some in-person classes. Student testimonies in the report bear this out.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

“The kids that aren’t in algebra by eighth grade, they can do that still,” said Julia Kaufman, a senior policy researcher at RAND, and the lead author of the report, “but they would have to do something special to get there,” such as doubling up on math or taking a summer class. Are a lot of students of color, for example, in the lower track?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Hechinger Report is an independent unit of Teachers College.) “You Strada surveyed 1,139 people who attended a community college within the last 10 years; about one-third of them had earned an associate degree. Many community college students also experience financial challenges and face food, housing and transportation insecurity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report There are teachers who should have aides, but don’t. Wateen Khawaj attends prekindergarten — or what California calls “transitional kindergarten,” at Kaiser Early Childhood Center in Oakland. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report “Can students in TK learn their letters?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Years ago, when Woodfin attended Union Public Schools from kindergarten through eighth grade, she sat in fairly homogenous classrooms. Credit: Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report Until recently, however, students in Union’s advanced math classes remained mostly white. I don’t know why you’re doubting yourself.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

I’ve voted to establish longevity pay for our staff, provide attendance bonuses for our bus drivers and open a new dual-language school. He attends Estrella Mountain Community College. That’s why students must be on them appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report And the man does. Attending a themed school offers no guarantee of success in the focus subject, either. But parents whose children attended the school said the arts theme isn’t infused into the core subjects. “You guys are cute; people are going to want to help you.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

She’d heard about this place where I had spent four years of my life precisely 20 years earlier; she had been eagerly looking forward to attending the “reunion,” which was a new word for her. What I discovered, what nobody had warned me about, was that having your child attend your alma mater can produce a powerful cocktail of emotions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Children who had won lotteries to attend these charter schools had higher reading scores than students who lost the lotteries. This research was funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report. ) In 2021, students were still not attending school in person.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels. Nicolas Garcia, a senior at Adolfo Camarillo High School, analyzes data that he gathered on his cellphone use during the school day.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Instead of raw aggregate measures like test scores, the study uses changes in test scores and a statistical adjustment for racial composition to compute more accurate measures of the causal effects that attending a particular school has on students’ learning gains.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

where the net price has risen more for the lowest-income students over the last decade than for their higher-income peers, as USA Today and The Hechinger Report reported recently. (At Brenau only reports tuition prices for in-person students to IPEDS, which the university’s statement said “skewed” the net-price calculations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2023

I also dropped attendance requirements and reduced the number of assignments, doing away with busywork. After each exam, students attend individual conferences, in which we discuss how the semester has been going. They write short self-evaluations assessing their attendance, contribution to class discussions and work on readings.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Educators in New York City feel “overwhelmed” by keeping track of the many programs across the five boroughs for students looking to enter the workforce without a college degree, according to a September report from College Access: Research and Action, which conducted in-depth interviews with educators from nine city schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The organization, Attendance Works, believes that the number of students missing at least 18 days* of school a year doubled to 16 million in 2021-22 from 8 million students before the pandemic. One out of three kids is a lot,” said Hedy Chang, executive director of Attendance Works. Attendance Works disputes these official figures.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. The remaining 50 percent decided against attending either.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2023

As many as 37 percent of homeless students are chronically absent, according to a report from the National Center for Homeless Education. The nonprofit’s system of interventions is highly reliant on New York’s attendance data, Algarin says. And, Guastaferro says, it turned their attendance numbers around.

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