The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Several studies in the mid 2000s found that cell phone messages were surprisingly effective at reminding students to fill out financial aid forms, as well as to apply to and enroll in college. High school seniors were targeted, as were college dropouts who wanted to resume their studies. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. 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. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

These campuses don’t always shut down physically but students aren’t necessarily able to continue their previous studies there. Most other public closures were small ones, such as the closure of a teacher training site at a local elementary school. Most of them continued to operate campuses at other locations.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Studies have often found that Black students learn more from same race teachers. At the start of college, Michigan’s Black students are almost as interested in teaching as white students, the report found. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. One Alabama town is trying to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. The third graders at A.J.

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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. I want to become a nurse.”

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Historical Context in Social Studies : When discussing the Civil Rights Movement in a history class, students draw on their prior knowledge of earlier historical events like slavery and the American Civil War to better understand the context and significance of this movement. Prior Knowledge: What Does the Research Say?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2023

In Philadelphia, 49 percent of students who graduated from public high schools matriculated to a college or university, a number that does not account for the 19 percent pushout or dropout rate of students who did not graduate from high school. Only 10 percent of Philadelphia public school students went on to earn a college degree.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

In 2018, after a decade-long consultation process, South Dakota adopted new standards designed to expand and improve instruction of Native American studies. In a June 2022 report , the department said it had deleted the term “equity” from the title of a report about equitable access to qualified teachers for low-income and minority students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While pre-Ks, elementary schools and some schools for children with complex disabilities reopened in December, there is still no plan to reopen middle and high schools. They will also likely depress high school graduation rates, cause a spike in dropout rates, and negatively impact final educational attainment.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Studies show that the effect of having a black male teacher, especially between grades 3 and 5, decreases the dropout rate among black male students by 30 percent and increases the likelihood of black students aspiring to higher education. This story about a teaching force that better reflects the racial diversity of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Bonnie Arbittier, San Antonio Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story on school counselers is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series exploring how schools can prepare young people for the good middle-class jobs of the future. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

An Israeli study found long-term benefits from high school remedial instruction taught by the students’ teachers after school. Credit: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. Political whims in education are universal.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

Here’s a hard lesson I’ve learned working in the after-school field for nearly three decades: Often, it’s not until report cards come that parents discover there’s a problem. A recent study commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance found that unmet demand for middle school after-school programs has risen sharply.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Study after study, researcher after researcher, finds the same few things about retention: No long-term achievement gains. Significantly higher dropout rates. For example, one study showed that 65% to 90% of overage children in grade 9 do not persist to graduation. Back in January 2014, I noted that.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

But an April 2022 report by Eskolta School Research and Design, a nonprofit consultancy that provides training and services to alternative schools in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., They are graduating underserved students at much higher rates,” said Ali Holstein, co-author of the Eskolta study on transfer schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She is among hundreds of thousands of students around the country who disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn’t resume their studies elsewhere. Over months of reporting, the AP learned of students and families avoiding school for a range of reasons. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. What’s his name?”

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 82

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. NEW YORK — It’s 3 p.m.

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tyrone Turner for WAMU.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Tagged on: March 3, 2017 How to Tell a Secret in the Digital Age | New York Times → Education reporters take heed.

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EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 136

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. One student is studying surface area and three-digit multiplication.

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Study Data Report Elementary 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate. He was no longer enrolled, they said.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 78

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Credit: Photo: Ronda Churchill for The Hechinger Report. Among lower-income adults, who have already been disproportionately affected, one in four say they have only enough savings to cover their expenses for three months if they’re laid off or get sick, the Pew Research Center reports. But is it better than being a dropout?

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Industry Dropout Pearson Report 134

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. 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. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

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. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. What can that look like? When Dan D.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

NEW YORK — Social studies teacher Karen Rose stepped out of New Rochelle High School last month for what will likely be the last time. Along with Rose, I contacted a middle and an elementary school teacher to see how they are faring. And while that makes her sad, it’s not what bothers her most after 34 years in the classroom. “My

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The pilot program trains 11th and 12th grade students to do basic interventions — helping with schoolwork planning and navigating new social dynamics — to reduce the risk of dropouts. Last year, researcher Mina Fazel analyzed studies from all over the world examining peer mental health programs in schools.

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Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 91

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. BURIEN, Wash. —

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Elementary Training Report Guidelines 96

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. Another study found that Latino students were more likely to receive disciplinary action than white students.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98