The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2021

In an online survey, Chicago was one of five metropolitan areas that 2,500 adults were asked to imagine relocating to and choose a school district for their child. Data on student achievement, such as average test scores, prompted a preference for school districts that are wealthier and more white, researchers found in the new online study.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most controversial and largest education reforms of the Obama era was an effort to improve teacher quality. Teachers and their unions bristled at being judged by students’ test scores. Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C., Chicago and Cincinnati, which persist to this day.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The reading skills of the nation’s eighth-graders rose slightly, but their math skills did not. Fourth-graders didn’t improve in 2017 in either subject. The one exception was eighth-grade reading, with the average score rising by one point between 2015 and 2017. Reading scores also stagnated.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

SAT Scores: A New Number. Have you ever wondered how to achieve higher SAT scores? Some SAT scores and content changes include the following : The test is more aligned with school (including relevant vocabulary terms used in school and useful for the future). The maximum SAT score 2015 is vastly greater than today’s SAT.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

High quality after-school programs sometimes produce reading or math gains for students who do show up, but many programs operate with poorly trained teachers and lessons that are disconnected from what students are learning in their regular classes. The math achievement of middle-income children improved too, but not by nearly as much.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

Saga, a national nonprofit, provides a research-backed math curriculum with a track record of success for middle and secondary grades. The randomized controlled trials also found that Saga’s tutoring model reduced math course failure rates by 60 percent. “Tutoring, when done well, can do more than help students catch up.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When it was repeated during the 2020-21 school year, it again showed that students’ test scores shot up when they received four hours of online tutoring a week from university students. The results were less sanguine in another study that looked at pairing volunteer college students with low-income middle schoolers in the Chicago area.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira Learning is only one of a slew of edtech companies that have leveraged the advancements in voice-based AI to help improve foundational reading skills for learners from kindergarten right up to fourth grade. For young readers in Georgia, voice technology is already prompting improvements, according to SCCPSS leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Another approach that warrants further study is using the extra time for a double dose of math , in which students take a remedial class and a grade-level class concurrently. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools. There were no overall academic benefits in reading or math, on average.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2018

A focus on high-quality principals in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) could serve as a best-practice model for districts across the nation, according to data indicating improved student performance and principal retention. Next page: How one school dramatically improved its math and reading performance).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

At another event, teachers taught parents math games to play with their children. Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. What worked?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. But the early-grade math skills of these same low-income children have not received equal attention. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The tool calculated a score for each possible answer, resulting in a prioritized list of challenges. Supporting students’ ability to solve real world math problems. Students who participate in guided collaborative projects improve critical thinking and social skills needed for college and careers ( P21 , 2015).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Behavioral economists found that scores rose for U.S. students do so badly on international tests, especially in math, how can it be that the U.S. math scores have slumped down into the bottom half. Scores rose for the American teens who were bribed. But the scores often influence policymakers. Guess what?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

But the personal travelogue he recounts, tracing his origins in Chicago through his tenure as the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools and then U.S. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

So several researchers are exploring how a simple text-based nudge to parents could improve their kids’ academic performance by making engagement easier and even habitual for parents. In fact, language skills advanced most among kids who started the program with the lowest scores in a literacy assessment.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

Increasing Scores and Building Excitement Very rarely does a student understand something on the first try. Since we implemented our PBL model, data shows that in one year (2016 to 2017), reading comprehension scores increased 8 percent, math application increased 9 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

CHICAGO — One spring morning, 22 stories above Chicago’s Wabash Avenue, Aurice Blanton ignored the stunning spring view of Lake Michigan. Aurice Blanton, a senior at Chicago Technology Academy, looks over his schedule during a month-long internship at CNA Insurance last May. I hated math. He had work to do.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

High test scores and graduation rates, broad college acceptances, and all from inner-city students who would normally be expected to lag behind – students Neal calls “underestimated” rather than underperforming. Subscribe today! Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. She found the visit jarring.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2015

Angela Duckworth, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching 7th grade math in New York City public schools when she quickly noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. Instilling Grit in Students. Click to watch from 04:09.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

But the pandemic wiped out some of the improvements in academic performance and graduation rates that the district had seen under the so-called Cleveland Plan. A lot rides on the school system’s continued improvement: Not just student outcomes, but also the future of the city itself and the fortunes of its young, new mayor, Justin Bibb.

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MindShift

JANUARY 23, 2018

So several researchers are exploring how a simple text-based nudge to parents could improve their kids’ academic performance by making engagement easier and even habitual for parents. In fact, language skills advanced most among kids who started the program with the lowest scores in a literacy assessment.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

But the early-grade math skills of these same low-income children have not received equal attention. Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. Ayala, the district’s first woman and first Latina in the top spot, rolled up her sleeves.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

Change has proven rewarding at CICS West Belden , a high-performing K-8 charter school in Chicago, which recently shifted to a personalized learning model. But despite the school’s high test scores, its growth was stagnating. But those outcomes have not been without challenges, and the adjustment wasn’t easy for everyone.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 12, 2016

High school students who took an online makeup course after failing Algebra I had lower scores, grades, and credit-recovery rates than their peers who took the same course in a traditional face-to-face setting, according to new research from the American Institutes of Research. Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2017

Now that the debate on Question 2 has been decided for the foreseeable future — the ballot initiative was defeated, meaning that the current cap on charter schools will remain in place — it’s time to shift the focus to how we can improve opportunities for all Massachusetts students, whether they attend charters or traditional public schools.

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MindShift

MAY 19, 2016

His subjects were students in nine middle and elementary schools in Chicago Heights, Ill. They were judged, based on previous performance, to be at risk of scoring below the passing mark on state reading and math tests. Remember, value-added is based on comparing students’ scores on two tests taken at different times.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As the community near the Mexican border came together to make education a priority, scores in math and reading on state standardized tests rose. Students enter a high school in Detroit, where efforts have been underway to improve the college-going rate. This story also appeared in Wired. How can we work together to fix it?’ ”.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

We saw a huge improvement in our students’ ability to write effectively and to type efficiently,” says curriculum coordinator Amy Gale. “It pre-K through 8 school in Chicago, all students are learning to think, and write, critically. They wrote for a total of 78,873 minutes and produced 2,245,621 words.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s hard to express this with a simple number because of the math involved in calculating the even distribution of people. One index of how evenly students of different races and ethnicities are distributed throughout the schools within a district found that the mix improved 21 percent during this 1998 to 2010 time period.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

might have been 19th in the world in math (instead of 36th) if we’d bribed our students with $25. A 2016 study by University of Chicago behavioral economist Steven Levitt and colleagues found that non-financial rewards were more effective in raising test scores with younger students than with older students. Related: The U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

William Teale and Dr. Steven Tozer at the University of Illinois Chicago reveals that that most school principals and school directors feel underprepared to provide quality literacy leadership. Related: More than 5,000 Mississippi third-graders could be held back this year for low reading scores.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Jasmine Bankhead needed to figure out a way to improve teaching at her school. She was the new principal of the O’Keeffe School of Excellence, an elementary school on Chicago’s South Side that had been struggling for years. Bringing Lesson Study to Chicago. Akihiko Takahashi is a professor of math education at DePaul University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

But whether or not the school district gets the cash, it says it is going forward with an ambitious plan to add a requirement that, to get their diplomas, high schoolers must score a 21 on the ACT, complete a year of college or earn a technical certificate. Middle schools also produced large improvements in reading and math scores.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 16, 2015

While boosting kids’ math and verbal skills may draw more attention from parents and educators, spatial reasoning skills play an important — sometimes overlooked — role in academic and career success. Beyond math, spatial thinking is important in and of itself for fostering interest in science, math and technology.” .

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

High school students comfort each other on Chicago’s South Side. A new Chicago study shows that students who attend schools that foster soft skills do better in high school and beyond. Generally, we look at test scores. That’s led to excessive test preparation — and even fraud — to boost scores. Weekly Update.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 5, 2023

This blog was originally published on K20Connect A review of current state assessment data post-pandemic found that most states have less than 50% proficiency in math across the country. In California , 84% of Black and 79% of Hispanic students were not proficient in math. Inequity was pointed out in several states' report card data.

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