The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur Breaking down stereotypes.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 70

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom (“seat time”) doesn’t matter, nor does the number of credits they’ve accumulated. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Proficiency-based education is a wonky term, but in essence it means that students master certain skills before they move up a grade or graduate.

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Learning Report System Case Study 111

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

Circumstances are really kind of secondary. Even after I left the classroom and started doing instructional coaching, teaching was still my hobby. But there were people who were frankly outraged that I dared to take a break when classroom teachers can’t. My focus became broader, I guess. There just weren’t.

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Training Social Media Classroom System 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a problem: Only 56 percent of third-graders in his district had scored proficient on the state reading test. By 2015, the district had turned the corner financially, and Silva was wondering why the reading scores were so terrible.

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Closing that gap and getting kids to continue their training after high school is especially important here: 74 percent of jobs will require post-secondary education by 2020. Today, her department, which adopted the ACSA model in 2015, focuses on three areas: academic counseling, career counseling and social-emotional counseling.

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Dropout Report Training Outcomes 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. A replica of his classroom was installed in the US Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC. airing on Discovery in 2020.)

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Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9 E-rate and the History of the Future of the “Digital Divide” When the E-rate program was first established in 1996, only 14% of K–12 classrooms in the US had access to the Internet.

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