The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Elliott’s lawyer told him that he could expect to spend the next two months in jail — and out of the classroom — while the district attorney decided whether to accept his case. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students in the immersion lab mastered Mandarin about twice as fast as their counterparts in conventional classrooms, said Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer. The way these kinds of learning get documented is also about to change. Related: As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. HATHORNE, Mass. —

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” It’s one thing to be ask students to write a document or take a test. That’s a major institutional shift and opens up new roles for faculty.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

He had missed a month and a half of regular classroom instruction, and it was already his second time through the 9th grade. The report also found that two-thirds to three-fourths of 9th graders who did return to school after incarceration withdraw within a year. The boys do schoolwork in a noticeably more crowded classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report A significant percentage of these new students will face such substantial barriers that they won’t return for a second semester. Ultimately, less than 4 percent of them graduate from college, compared with the nation’s overall rate of 29 percent, according to a 2018 report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

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. A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data exposes the stark racial gap between different groups of special education students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Credit: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. The study is part of a larger body of work in which Lavy has documented positive results from intervening with older students. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Credit: Yunen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. The Lumina Foundation is among the numerous funders of The Hechinger Report.). Credit: Yunen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Yunen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. Related: Inside a college counseling center struggling with the student mental health crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Jacks shakes his head at the idea that poor students on scholarship, who are supposed to be equal in the classroom, instead find themselves scrubbing the bathrooms of rich students, serving “as personal maids for their peers…it’s time for all colleges and universities to rethink such programs.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order in April 2022 restricting how race and equity can be taught in the classroom, Tilsen-Brave Heart decided to enroll her daughter at Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, a newly opened private school in Rapid City. Credit: Courtesy of Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart When South Dakota Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2018

Now that I’m a mother, each new season, or day for that matter, brings worry: worry that my teenage son won’t make it out of bed and out the door in the morning; worry that if he does, he will be misunderstood in the classroom, the cafeteria or, worse, the band hall. What will we choose to pay for?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. So, too, did the growing body of evidence documenting the harm associated with pulling students out of school: One study , for example, found that students’ chances of dropping out doubled with their first suspension. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. BURIEN, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I. In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report It was just the latest interruption in schooling that’s been characterized by near constant disruption. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report The Puerto Rican school district, the sixth largest in the U.S., Department of Education report. Nothing could be salvaged.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A whiteboard in a classroom. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Our students are not students that you can expect to just go into the classroom and learn English and be fine.”. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. We were three.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. “I Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”.

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