The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. Then, as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Duncan decided to close three low-performing elementary schools. Once again, the story has a happy outcome.

Dropout 67

Dropout Policies Elementary Data 67

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

. – Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. Until recently, teachers and administrators lacked tools to measure the engagement levels of their students in the classroom.

Student Engagement 40

Student Engagement Dropout Elementary Data 40

edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Research illuminates its impact: Elementary school students who miss 10% of school show weaker social skills development, lower reading ability, and higher grade-retention rates. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. what others do or how they rank in a specific area.

Policies 52

Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

MindShift

JANUARY 11, 2019

A recent study — part of a series of working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research — shows that having just one black teacher not only lowers black students’ high school dropout rates and increases their desire to go to college, but also can make them more likely to enroll in college.

Dropout 28

Dropout Elementary Study Analysis 28

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In some ways, the return to exclusionary discipline is a predictable outcome of the chaos of the pandemic. (The Sacramento City Unified School District, where Hatten’s daughter received her suspension, said it was unable to provide this year’s data.). Teachers and administrators nationwide are stretched especially thin.

Personalized Learning 136

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 136

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

Personalized Learning 98

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

They still are, but as the academy enters its sixth full year, its student outcomes are drawing praise from a variety of sources, even while administrators note that steep challenges remain. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

Learning 111

Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

In a presentation a few years ago, a top education-department administrator, Chief of Literacy Kerry Laster, wrote, “We retain students despite overwhelming research and practical evidence that retention fails to lead to improved student outcomes.” Students who failed LEAP suddenly have more options than pass or fail.

Analysis 121

Analysis Report Data Policies 121

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Throughout her career, Hassan has supported and sponsored bills aimed at improving outcomes for people with disabilities. She said she never got the help she needed or was taught strategies to work on comprehension.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. The dismal outcomes aren’t because students with disabilities can’t handle the coursework. About a third of the students with disabilities who enroll in a four-year college or university graduate within eight years.

Study 87

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 87

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2023

And we must differentiate between the direct work of schools — such as fostering strong student-teacher relationships and course offerings — and educational outcomes, such as dropout rates, college-going rates and standardized test scores, that are often reflections of social inequality.

Dropout 140

Dropout Outcomes Data System 140

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district believes that by making its students feel equal to those in more affluent communities, they will start to see the same outcomes. A new elementary school, Presidential Park, hosts more than 1,000 students in a modern, state-of-the-art building. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

Blended Learning 132

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district believes that by making its students feel equal to those in more affluent communities, they will start to see the same outcomes. A new elementary school, Presidential Park, hosts more than 1,000 students in a modern, state-of-the-art building. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Jackson Scholar and has presented her work on the relationship among leader influence actions, organizational culture, and performance outcomes at the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) and the American Educational Research Administration (AERA). She is a Barbara L.

Dropout 75

Dropout Strategy Policies Meeting 75

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Burnett spends half her time at Alamosa Elementary School, where about one in four students have missed more than 10 percent of school days so far this school year, according to attendance data Burnett tracks.

Elementary 92

Elementary Learning Report Data 92

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I I do what I can, whenever I can, for my children,” she said. On the way back to her car, she saw a group of her students.

Broadband 145

Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In Nevada, which has some of the very worst outcomes in the country for students with disabilities, just 17 percent of black students and 27 percent of Latino students exited with a regular diploma. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

Dropout 92

Dropout Report System Meeting 92

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. There are gifted dropouts. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. Intuitively, teachers and parents know that it’s much harder to improve a person’s academic trajectory later in life.

Dropout 116

Dropout Study Groups Report 116

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

To foster these kinds of outcomes in other cities, Owusu-Kesse enticed Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone’s founder and former CEO, out of semi-retirement to lead the initiative, which Owusu-Kesse sees as “a national hub” for local groups. These students come from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Survey 98

Survey Outcomes Data System 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

In a 2017 study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers found that low- income black male elementary school students who were paired with a black teacher in the third, fourth, or fifth grades were 39 percent less likely to drop out of high school. Related: Teachers could retire in droves by the time schools reopen.

Education 145

Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

McElvogue has the time to spend an hour with Almanza, as well as attend to her caseload of 230 students, because Colorado is betting that a big investment in counseling can improve educational outcomes for its low-income students. When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

“We also saw an equal protection violation because we know that not seeing yourself or your perspective reflected in your curriculum has detrimental outcomes for students,” the attorney said, adding that the case is working its way through the court system.

Policies 144

Policies Report Dropout Study 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Snyder is the principal of the elementary, middle and high schools in this tiny town in southeastern Colorado. The schools they preside over, meanwhile, often struggle with persistent poverty , low college-going rates and extreme racial disparities in student outcomes. Buses for a field trip to a dinosaur museum have to be sorted.

Elementary 112

Elementary Training Report Policies 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

Education 79

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Students at Lovett Elementary in Clinton, Miss. By earlier accounts , this program helped lower the number of high school “dropout factories” with increased graduation rates and boosted test scores in about two-thirds of the schools in the program. work on laptops during class. Photo: Jackie Mader.

System 40

System Dropout Instructional Materials Strategy 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In Guatemala and El Salvador, around a quarter of students don’t even make it through elementary school, according to the World Bank, while in Honduras, about 17 percent of children don’t get past primary school. Her parents, who emigrated from Guatemala in 2000, were among those who never made it through elementary school.

Report 109

Report Course Elementary Meeting 109

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Programs that help teenage mothers stay in school can make a big difference to the education and life outcomes for both the adolescents and their babies. “My daughter’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. She motivates me a lot.” Viviana Longoria, 16.

Kaplan 111

Kaplan Report Policies Laptops 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

Elementary 101

Elementary Report Dropout System 101

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

If you see TOPS cut, you are going to see a lot of students leave the state and a lot of students not be able to afford college, and both of those are not good outcomes for the state of Louisiana.”. At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. Only 16 percent had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Dropout 78

Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 78

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. I signed the paper.”.

Elementary 144

Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

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EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Partly as a result, educational outcomes for these students are bleak. Like other advocates, she said poor outcomes for students don’t have to be the norm, if only schools would recognize these students’ strengths. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Most of the teens she works with drop out in ninth grade.

Report 133

Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 133

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards.” Via The New York Times : “ New York to Shorten Standardized Tests in Elementary and Middle Schools.” An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed from EAB’s Melanie Hoe : “What the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Means for You.” ” Fox. .”

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ For-Profit College Attendance Linked to Poor Financial Outcomes.” More PR from Techcrunch : “ Nintendo is bringing Labo kits to elementary schools.”

Education 60

Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60