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Sent home early: Lost learning in special education

The Hechinger Report

For the most part, however, schools are not required to justify their decisions to send students home early, nor is any significant data collected on this practice, allowing the problem to remain largely hidden. Instead, schools must support and address these issues in the classroom.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

In the summer of 2020, Talbott and her colleagues asked for a meeting with the charter school’s leaders to discuss racial justice at Lusher, one of the city’s most coveted for families and teachers alike; they also created an antiracism group for teachers. “A Yet early data suggests that the pandemic is aggravating the leaky bucket problem.

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For ed-tech success, why schools use technology is just as important as how

The Hechinger Report

For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. While effective, these methods were unsustainable, because teachers had to do much of the data tracking and analysis manually, according to the paper.

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

It’s the first time this kind of data has been compiled and analyzed nationally, and some of the spending gaps are extreme. Hechinger’s analysis of state and local spending by school included nearly 700 districts (those with 15 or more schools) from 40 states that made the data available. But he’s not surprised. That’s a problem.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

When Hallowell tried to extend proficiency-based education to its high school in 2008, parents put up a fight, saying the change would make it harder for their children to compete for scholarships and admission to selective schools, according to a case study published by the state Department of Education.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56 Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. Census data. We’re just trying to make ends meet with what we’ve got.”. Schools stand to receive $2.4

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 When our kids came out of a meeting with those other kids, we saw a light in them we had never seen,” Eschman said. “We The Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey counted 2.4 million in 2005 to 7.1 million in 2014.